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- From: schiller@whorf (Eric Schiller)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Siesta Variation (name) and Albin Counter question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.193953.26856@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:39:53 GMT
- References: <9212232247.AA08178@cs3.vuse>
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- In article <9212232247.AA08178@cs3.vuse> spin@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Jeremy
- Spinrad) writes:
- >
- 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
- Funny you should mention it, I was looking at a game with this line
- this past wekend, from a German publication of gambit games. I
- remember that when I wrote my Albin book I didn't think much of
- the move, but can't now recall why. I will try to find the
- relevant citation and remember what it was i thought White
- could do, and will post soon as time permits.
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- Eric Schiller schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu
- Dept of Linguistics, Univ. of Chicago schiller@whorf.uchicago.edu
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