Tennison Gambit, Queen Trap in 8 moves

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Thank you! So helpful.

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You can do the same in 4 moves
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Fun fact: 7. Bg6? is a mistake. The right move sequence is 7. Qh5+ Kf6 8. Qg6+ Ke5 9. Bf4+ Kd4 10. Qe4+ Kc5 11. Qc4+ Kb6 12. Qb4#. Why should you win the Queen if you can win the King?

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Complementing the comment above, in all variants there is a checkmate. For example, if Black decides to play 7 ... g6 then 8. Qg6 # would come. Now, if both king f6 and pawn g6 end in mate, what happens to the remaining move, Ke6?  8. Qf5 Kd6 9. Bf4 e5 10. Qxe5 Kd7 11. Bf5#. Actually Black were lost since the fifth move.

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it's a necro but since I looked... I can't think of a less natural move then 3... c6 for black. literally other move made more sense to me :)

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Yeah but what kinda move is 3. c6 when your pawn is under atack

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its better for black to go 3. Knight f6 because this protects the pawn. But even like that its still possible to do this same thing as white and win black's queen

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I tried it worked

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SoyuzNerushimy wrote:

Fun fact: 7. Bg6? is a mistake. The right move sequence is 7. Qh5+ Kf6 8. Qg6+ Ke5 9. Bf4+ Kd4 10. Qe4+ Kc5 11. Qc4+ Kb6 12. Qb4#. Why should you win the Queen if you can win the King?

Nxh5...

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danvai032 wrote:
SoyuzNerushimy wrote:

Fun fact: 7. Bg6? is a mistake. The right move sequence is 7. Qh5+ Kf6 8. Qg6+ Ke5 9. Bf4+ Kd4 10. Qe4+ Kc5 11. Qc4+ Kb6 12. Qb4#. Why should you win the Queen if you can win the King?

Nxh5...

How does the knight take h5 from g8?

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This variation makes no sense anyway as there's no reason for black to play 3. ...c6. The Tennison Gambit is refuted by 3. ...Bf5.

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It looks more like Caro Kann

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SamuelAjedrez95 wrote:
danvai032 wrote:
SoyuzNerushimy wrote:

Fun fact: 7. Bg6? is a mistake. The right move sequence is 7. Qh5+ Kf6 8. Qg6+ Ke5 9. Bf4+ Kd4 10. Qe4+ Kc5 11. Qc4+ Kb6 12. Qb4#. Why should you win the Queen if you can win the King?

Nxh5...

How does the knight take h5 from g8?

As mentioned previously, the move in the sequence is actually 3... Nf6, not 3... c6, if you're talking about the trap. (The checkmate is not the trap.) That is the most natural move for Black if Black doesn't know about the gambit yet, so basically you will likely never encounter the situation.

(https://www.chess.com/openings/Reti-Opening-Tennison-Gambit is the official Tennison Gambit page on chess.com.)

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If fhey play Nf6 instead of c6 then they do have Nxh5. In the line in the post which that person was referring to though, c6 was played so there is no Nxh5.

3. ...Bf5 is the best move for black though. Then there is no d3 and no trap.

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@newbie4711

This move order makes a lot more sense.

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Tennis on gambit ICBM

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uuhhhh its a rare opening only for higher elo

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The true line.