Crushing attack in the Petroff Defense. Wait... what?!

The title is not a misprint. I just had a lively game in the petroff (!) which ends in a miniature. And I was black :)   Enjoy.

Nice.

Great game. 

GG

my rybka is having a hard time why my 7. ...Be7 is "worse" than 7.... Be6. if any petroff experts out there could help, it would be greatly appreciated :)

*bump* :)

i always play petroff defence

petroff is good and aggresive

haha random comment :)   but perhaps you could back up this statement with another game of your own?

I think that Be6 may be better in terms of move order flexibility since quite often in e4 e5 openings Bc5 is a common move, especially in this case where it is even supported by Ne4. For example if white were to play Nxd4 at any given moment, then ...Nxd4, Qxd4, ...Bc5 in 1 go + with tempo .

The light squared bishop on the other hand, when developed will be facing the queenside and shooting at thin air, so by process of elimination, Be6 is probably best since it blocks up the e-file against Re1 and supports d4 (in case of c4 breaks).

Hope this helps.

contrapunctus: thanks that helped make things make a lil more sense.

moral: play as solid as possible! :P

I dont think it petroffs because it done by an american.

oops, I think you're right. Petrov is the correct spelling.

Петров is the correct spelling. It is only spelled correctly using letters from Cyrillic alphabet. 

Transliterated, though, it would be Petrov. 

:P

Thanks for sharing this! Very entertaining game and I learned a few useful things from your annotations.

After 3. ...Nxe4 the White should play 4. Nc3, the Boden Kieseritzky Gambit.

I used to play the Boden Gambit a lot, but there were two problems:

1.Via the traditional move order of 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nf3, black usually just played 3...Nc6, and I was never a big fan of the Guicco or the Two Knights.

2.After 4.Nc3, black can play 4...Nc6, transposing into a Vienna Game (I think it is called the Dracula variation or something like that).

it seems that the petrov tends to cause a lot of headaches for white players aiming for an attacking game in the italian or a positional masterpiece in the ruy - but of course, as seen in this game, it is not as drawish as its reputation suggests.

That knight on e4 can be a pain in the *** :)