SUPER Secret ICBM Trap against the French

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We play e4, they play e6, the French, we simply play d3. If d4, play Nf3. They capture, we play Ng5. Once they take on d3, recapture with Bishop where h6 is a TERRIBLE MOVE!!! We play Nxf7!! where Kxf7 Bg6!! Kxg6 Qxd8 & you win the game up a Queen.
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1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.Sf3 dxe4 4.Sg5? exd3 5.Lxd3 h6? (many other Black's moves probably winn) 6.Nxf7? Kxf7 7.Bg6+ Ke7! and Black is best.

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Replying to Toldsted: It is really, REALLY rare for your opponent to find Ke7.

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Ok even after Qxd8 Bb4+ wins the queen and the game
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SuryaVS skrev:
Ok even after Qxd8 Bb4+ wins the queen and the game

No. Your Knight is still at g8.

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dcyftukd wrote:

Replying to Toldsted: It is really, REALLY rare for your opponent to find Ke7.

This statement is inaccurate. I would wager that Toldsted's opponents would play 7. Ke7 a minimum of 99% if the time. I'm sure YOUR opponents miss it constantly considering you're consistently facing ~100 ELO opponents across 3 time formats and almost 2000 games, but whatever works I guess.

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No one is falling for this
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You could play Qh5 and transition into an end game
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Back in my days (before the queens gambit series), the ICBM gambit actually had a real name called the Tennison gambit.

Dare to refuse the name ICBM for the real Tennison gambit!