This is quite comical....
The most unknown chess opening of all
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But a great example of the bishop and knight 'deke'
Helpful...
Sorry...
Mar 15, 2015
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#6
I happened to pick up a copy of "Unorthodox Chess Openings" (Eric Schiller) recently and found it fascinating, so I'm in the mood to post a couple obscure though possibly sound openings from that book...
Sqod wrote:
I happened to pick up a copy of "Unorthodox Chess Openings" (Eric Schiller) recently and found it fascinating, so I'm in the mood to post a couple obscure though possibly sound openings from that book...
These openings....
The front page of the site now consists of an article on the weirdest chess openings.... Copier :)
Mar 23, 2015
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#12
A few more from the same book, in this case transpositions to/from the English opening...
Thanks Sqod, is there any on the Bird? 1.f4
Mar 27, 2015
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#14
Yes, there are several from the Bird, including the Horsefly Defense I posted above...
how is the sturm gambit a gambit? it does not gambit a pown.
Mar 27, 2015
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#16
I've played the "Tubingen Gambit" (the "u" should have an um lout over it, or whatever you call those sidewards colons in German) about 5 to 10 times over the board:
The Diagram Thingamabobber is not working today (some kind of scripting error), but it's 1.Nc3 Nf6 2.g4.
There are a number of variations, but Black's best is to directly transpose to the Bronstein Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.g4 Nxg4 3.e4 d6 4.Be2 Nf6 5.Nc3) via 2...Nxg4 3.e4 d6 4.Be2 (4.d4? is a mistake because of 4...e5!) Nf6 5.d4, leading directly to the same position listed above in parenthesis.
Mar 27, 2015
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#17
tjepie wrote:
how is the sturm gambit a gambit? it does not gambit a pown.
You're right. My mistake: I left off the last move. I just corrected it above.
These openings are great for blitz.
I tryed the Danish once. Failed to get an attack going.
Post the most unknown opening that you feel actully isn't junk. Bonus if there are traps existing in them.
What I don't want but I guess you could do....
So yeah.