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I REALLY like that owens game. I was trying to slog through theory for the Naselwaus gambit yesterday, and it has GREAT stats, but it's a move order nightmare. I'm REALLY liking the look of your krejcik like attack on f7 line! I just might start playing that too, though I'm going to take a look at the theory. owens, pirc, modern & french all annoy me greatly

a VERY SATISFYING 19 move pirc (and I have terrible stats against it & the modern etc.)

I looked at that anti-owens line. 1. e4 b6 2. Nf3 Bb7 3. Bc4 Bxe4 it has great stats, but it's a side line with annoying 4.e6 blocking the bishop and wasting a tempo as the "main line" and stats favor black there by 5%. BUMMER because I really like castle grabbing, and fast attacks on f7 are why I play king's gambit, krejcik alekhine and the "BDG family" (alapin diemer french, gedult BDG scandinavian & mieses gambit carokann)

The most rarest of attacks in all of chess the caro king side attack... Playing h5! and the sad part is i will likely never get this position again... two many things have to align to get this attack.

45% accuracy for the win! woohoo! THIS is how I play the 3...g5 line, like MOST KG players. 4.h4 has better stats, but I like to keep to the 4.Bc4 in almost every line plan. i don't like the look of opening my 0-0 up and complicating the KS. i had some late opening & middlegame fumbling, but once I got active, i found my groove, and feel I played a great endgame stalefish quit complaining about after move 8

Nice attack, White had to play h3 instead of H4 probably, but like you said they lost a lot of time with Nbd2 Re1 and Qe3

This game had to be here, a nice miniature against an FM

Wow, nice game! Harry the h-pawn the hero. I like 6.Qc2, inaccuracy and all. Isn't there a funny line that goes 6...Nb4 7.Qa4+ N8c6 8.a3 etc.?

Nice checkmate. What a mess on f7!

oooh lukeluke does can opener attacks too!

it's good that game was anonymous! it was way too ugly for primetime! HAHAHAHAHA!!! I like 11.exd5 ep to temporarily block black's queen while opening that diagonal up for the Bxf7+ overload though.

if it was "ME" vs him, i really like 8.Be2 baiting the queen to take the b5 bishop and get crushed by 9.Nc7+!

9 move mieses, and I LIKE Bc4 even if stalefish doesn't! attack f7 asap!

Thanks. That was the idea of 8. c3, to leave the poisoned Bishop hanging by blocking the check. I went with 8. c3 as I didn't want him to be forced to retreat his Queen back to d8 if he spotted it (which he did), and I figured that allowed me to bring my Queen out (as in the game) and provided the option of re-routing the Bishop a4->c2 if that became necessary. At the time it felt like c3 gave me more options if he didn't fall into a simple fork trap. He almost did fall for it, but he did a final double-check of the board before making his move and spotted and called me sneaky! ha ha

I had no idea of that line I usually play A3 before Qc2, I don't see how Black can take advantage of Nb4 though

Thanks... i was suprised that no one has ever been in the position after move 11... at least not OTB or on lichess... we were both like 95% accurate up to that point...

I think you misunderstood me. Nb4 is not a 'good' move, but amateurish as it looks, it can be tricky.

In this game, white actually wins a piece, thanks to black's awkward queenside arrangement. But then somehow finds a way to lose. Of course, it would be ridiculous to call 6...Nb4 a 'winning move'.

That's an interesting game. But the difference is that White couldn't freely play A3 removing the knight immediately after Qa4+ because the pawn was on E3 allowing Nd3+. So in that sense Nb4!? was a decent option at least. The rest of the game was pure chaos though

Yeah, that 'hole' on d3 makes all the difference. I played a game a few weeks ago where white left that weakness on d3. I got a great position, but managed to eventually blow the game. But that's just my lame follow-up.

I've managed to ruin even more one-sided games than that, don't worry 😆

A win against an IM, who played really bad tbh

This one is my favorite. Sacrificing a Knight and Chancellor for a solo checkmate with the Archbishop. The way creative chess was meant to be played.