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From: [e-mail] (Jeremy Spinrad)
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Subject: Siesta Variation (name) and Albin Counter question
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:47:56 GMT
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   I made a mistake in an earlier post on the name of the Siesta variation.
I noted that the variation was first played in 1909 by Marshall vs.
Capablanca, and then did not reappear until it was used by Capablanca in
a tournament in Budapest in 1928, which I thought accounted for the name
"siesta". As it turns out, the Budapest tournament was called the Siesta
tournament, and the name of the variation comes from this. I leave it to a
better chess historian than myself to explain why a tournament in Budapest is
called the Siesta tournament.
   Using the same book which told me these historical tidbits as a source, I
played a strange line in the Albon countergambit in a recent tournament with
a good result. I could not find the line in any modern opening book; I was
wondering if anyone had comments on it.

1. P-Q4 P-Q4 2. P-QB4 P-K4 3. QPxP P-Q5 4. N-KB3 N-QB3 5. QN-Q2 and now the
bizarre looking move, suggested as a possibility in Tartakower and DuMont's
book "500 Master Games", Q-K2. Modern opening books give B-K3, B-KN5, B-QN5,
P-B3, Q-Q2 as possibilities, but not this. The point, which worked in my
game vs. a player rated ~2050, is to castle queenside ASAP, trade off the
king bishop pawn via P-KB3 opening the king file, and advance the queen pawn
with a wild game in store. Of course, the king's bishop doesn't develop
easily, but that is part of the bargain. Does anyone know an example of this
line being tested in master play?

Jerry Spinrad