The Amazon Attack (d4...Qd3)...what do you think of it? (real opening, not joke)??

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Schemato

There is this story that the great chess composer and puzzle inventor Samuel Loyd was once challenged by someone who thought that he could easily draw as Black by just copying White's moves. Guess how the game went.

Yigor
Schemato wrote:

There is this story that the great chess composer and puzzle inventor Samuel Loyd was once challenged by someone who thought that he could easily draw as Black by just copying White's moves. Guess how the game went.

 

What Loyd played exactly? It's easy to give a counterexample in 3 plies wink.png:

 

 

Schemato

 

Yigor

FM Schemato: All right, thank U! My example is quicker but without checkmate, only winning the queen. happy.png

yureesystem

@ FM Schemato, adhere to dogma get you mated, one the most funnies move ever played 3.Qh3 by a strong player; if Loyd's opponent had ounce of common sense he woulofd capture the 3...Bxh3.

testaaaaa

rename it i dont like the name, buy your stuff at your local busnessmans off topic but who cares

TitanChess666
It doesn't look bad.