The Togo-Fiji Opening: A Deep Dive

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cricket7890

Please check this forum first of all: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/contribute-to-togo-opening-theory

Now we will take a deep dive into the mysterious Togo-Fiji Opening. First of all its name comes from the mass amount of people which have Togo flags in this club, and the Fiji part comes from my flag, origin of this Togo-Fiji Opening, stems from this thread by Viznik: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/togo-openings-challenge

We also had a lot of determination by parkerkorb who wrote this forum: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/togo-opening-w-complete-variations

Now I will present to you the meaning of this opening, the whole reason it was created. You are aiming for an aggressive structure with pawns on c4 and e4 like the Whale variation, except you also want to quickly eliminate the black pawns that enter the center, so only you have central control. In fact the Togo-Fiji Opening itself starts off with this exact plan:

The main variation by far, is exd4, in total though there are 5 variations, exd4, Nxe4, Bb4+, Be7, and d6. As of now exd4 has much more theory than the rest of the four. And now I will introduce to you my idea after the main move, I call it the Cricket Gambit.

That is my idea in the Main Line. I also have another brilliant idea sacrificing four whole pawns, for huge activity and a huge lead in development:

You sacrifice four whole pawns!!!! That is unheard of before. 

Now everyone please comment on the first forum I gave the link to, you will be able to contribute to theory, and I will also write about others' ideas. Thank you for reading!

Pawntonic

Sacrificing pawns is bad, especially 4. Not a very good gambit xD

cricket7890

How can you prove that, you don't know how easy black can lose Example


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cricket7890
Viznik wrote:

I love what you’re doing here. Keep it up, I’m a bit busy right now but I’m going to check this out more fully in a bit, it looks really good 

Thanks!! happy.png

Romans_5_3-5
cricket7890 wrote:

How can you prove that, you don't know how easy black can lose Example

proof the two pawn sacs are good

 

cricket7890

7. axb4 is not part of the gambit, 7. Bd3! is better.