The toilet variation? What is that?

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Avatar of booklover834

Yesterday I was searching on openings and came across this toilet variation in Google. Why did they name it that???(although chess.com called it the sicilian defence)

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d5 3. f4

Avatar of Lightness_Potion

2. …c6 or 2. …Nc6 are better choices 

Avatar of Uhohspaghettio1

Was it that someone thought of it while on the toilet, I think I heard that about an opening. 

Probably lots of things are discovered on the toilet as it's a time of quiet solitude. 

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Or one of the player’s tummy was suffering and he wanted to go to the toilet quickly, so after this move he went to go poo.

Avatar of TR0LLKlNG

The Toilet Variation is named after you.

Avatar of ThrillerFan

More common is to reach it via the Tal Gambit.  1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Nc3

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Lightness_Potion wrote:

2. …c6 or 2. …Nc6 are better choices 

I know

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Uhohspaghettio1 wrote:

Was it that someone thought of it while on the toilet, I think I heard that about an opening. 

Probably lots of things are discovered on the toilet as it's a time of quiet solitude. 

No, it was a game between fisher and someone else

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Haha, very funny. I'm ascentingmegarayquaza, nice to meet you.

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Toilet chess is absolutely what the people here do.

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https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/great-stinky-toilet-farts-discussion-forums

Join this forum if you are interested.

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if this was poker, I'd say it's a