Ha, thank you very much, sir. I'm always looking for more excitement and fail in my games.
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ReasonableDoubt wrote:
I wouldn't really call these "excitement"... I'd call them one-trick ponies.
The excitement stems from trying to fix the pony's legs after it crashes and falls.
Apr 27, 2011
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Your selection of openings shouldn't first depend on finding an idiot to play. Once you get paired against someone with his wits about him, you're done for.
DrSpudnik wrote:
Your selection of openings shouldn't first depend on finding an idiot to play. Once you get paired against someone with his wits about him, you're done for.
D: But... but... but... gambits and gimmicks! D:
They're so fun!
Apr 27, 2011
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amazinghat wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:
Your selection of openings shouldn't first depend on finding an idiot to play. Once you get paired against someone with his wits about him, you're done for.
D: But... but... but... gambits and gimmicks! D:
They're so fun!
Fun!?! If chess were meant to be fun, it wouldn't be such torment.
Torment can be fun if it isn't yours. :D
ReasonableDoubt wrote:
I find it relatively easy to achieve awful positions without playing openings that do it for me, but if that's what it takes for you, then fine.
Well, the difference between doing 1.Knf3 ... 2.Kng1 ... repeatedly and failing a Grob's attack is that the former can only occur artificially whereas the latter forces you to outmaneaver an opponent with superior positioning in a naturally occuring chess problem.
Apr 27, 2011
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About these oppenings, the froms gambit goes here, atleast this variaton
1.f4 e5 2. fe d6 3. ed Bxd6 4. Nf3 g5,
Danvers Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Qh5). If you are lucky, the patzer will not defend the e5 pawn.
This is a favorite from Pandolfini's Traps and Zaps.
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ReasonableDoubt wrote:
Blackburne Shilling Gambit
Latvian Gambit
Vienna Game with Bxf7+
Grob Attack
Albin Counter-Gambit
Danish Gambit
Cochrane Gambit
Basically anything that involves the move f5 in the first 10 moves for black
So your saying that the Dutch is a gimmicky opening?
Many players have used it including Kramnik and Topalov
Apr 28, 2011
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ReasonableDoubt wrote:
Basically anything that involves the move f5 in the first 10 moves for black
Stonewall dutch?
What about the Budapest?
I tried the Blackburne Shilling Gambit in some games. My impression: Everyone will do the good response and take your knight. Either because they know it. Or cause theyre smart enough to sense its the safe move. Or, if they are not very good, because they simply do not see the hanging pawn and taking the knight seems natural.
ajedrecito wrote:
About the Legall's Mate post, you probably either got the score wrong or Pandolfini pointed out that Nxe5 is a blunder that loses a Knight for a Pawn after the simple reply ...Nxe5.
Legall's Mate works if the knight is not on c6 or if you play h3 first instead of Nxe5 in the position given earlier (h3 Bh5 Nxe5 Bxd1?? [Nxe5 Qxh5 Nxc4 Qb5+ +/-] Bxf7+ Ke7 Nd5 mate)
If the knight on e5 is taken then you take the unprotected bishop on g4.
The Grob is solid.
ajedrecito wrote:
I'm pretty sure the knight on e5 defends the bishop on g4, so Qxg4?? loses a Queen to Nxg4.
You're not looking at the game I posted but I'm the only one that mentioned Pandolfini.
Openings that either succeed well (presumably off the opponent's uneducated blunders) or fail miserably.
Gogogo!