Easy Chess and Birthday

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Avatar of Musikamole

Here is my first Live Chess game of the day, on my birthday.

Is there a name for my opponent's opening defense? I've never seen it before, but he didn't bring that many pieces to the attack, making it look premature. A nice little miniature to start my 52nd year of adventure. Smile



Avatar of trysts

I believe Black's play is called, "Happy Birthday"!Laughing

Avatar of Musikamole
trysts wrote:

I believe Black's play is called, "Happy Birthday"!


Laughing

Avatar of AndyClifton

I suppose it's a bit like the Basman (or at least it was at first)...

Anyway, skolSmile

Avatar of seventhmyth

the guy was going for the polish opening or something maybe missed the side of the board LOL. I usually reply with Ne2 and queens´Nc3 in order to protect Bc3 (or anything along that black diagonal) , preparing for a queenside castle and opening space for suported pawn advance on the king side

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/1e4g5-the-strange-grobs-defence

Avatar of wyh2013

looks lyk grob attack but i could be wrong.advancing two squares at the flank

Avatar of AndyClifton

It's also called the Grob Reversed, or Borg Defense (get it? Grob spelled backwards)...but it's usually associated with the name of Michael Basman.