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The Latvian Gambit, quite possibly my favorite chess opening.
You've got to be playing as Black to use it, and it relies on your opponent as White following up the extremely common e4 with his knight going to f3.
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Two pawns of Black, just there for the taking; does White want to use his soldier to take one of the free pawns, or his horsie? Either move can lead to some interesting play; here my opponent chose to take with his knight so he could follow up in a few subsequent moves with a deadly bishop-empowered fork by that same knight to my Queen and Rook. Moving the black Queen's pawn up 2 spaces (d4) "blocks" the move for a turn, but it's easily and freely taken then by the e4 pawn. On the other hand, pawns can only attack diagonally forward in most cases; simply putting something in its way then effectively blocks that pawn AND the bishop, AND, since the knight depended on bishop support, the knight as well.
This is blitz chess; presumably the short time limit encourages a bit of sloppiness as people rely on conventional habit more than careful thought throughout many a game. Perhaps this is why my opponent castles even while his knight now comes under attack?
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It's not free, though.
Black's King is exposed if that bishop has to move.
And an attack by the Rook makes it so that's exactly what the bishop needs to do. But he can't. Because the Black king dies if he does. The Bishop is pinned to his current square. Can the threat of an avenging knight dissuade the rook from taking him? Yes! The value of the Rook is more than that of a bishop.
So the Rook leaves him alone, though the bishop is still forced to stay there to block that same attack by that same rook on the Black King.
Unfortunately, White has a pawn worth only 1/3rd the bishop's value that he can use to make the capture.
And does.
And there's little Black can do to directly avenge that.
For, as long as that King is there, any piece that tried to do so would find itself pinned exactly the same way the now captured bishop was.
So, perhaps I should move my King, perhaps by castling ...?
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Log for another game that proved interesting, and which I won, but which I just don't have the wherewithal to visually post right now:
1. e4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 2. f4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 3. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} exf4 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 4. d3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} g5 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 5. Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:8]} d6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 6. Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Be6 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 7. c4 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Bxd5 {[%emt 0:0:22]} 8. cxd5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Ne5 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 9. Nd2 {[%emt 0:0:27]} Qd7 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 10. d4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Ng6 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 11. Qb3 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Rb8 {[%emt 0:0:16]} 12. Bb5 {[%emt 0:0:9]} c6 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 13. dxc6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} bxc6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 14. Bxc6 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Rxb3 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 15. Bxd7+ {[%emt 0:0:2]} Kxd7 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 16. axb3 {[%emt 0:0:13]} Be7 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 17. Rxa7+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} Ke6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 18. d5+ {[%emt 0:0:13]} Ke5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 19. 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 20. Rxe7+ {[%emt 0:0:4]} Nxe7 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 21. Re1 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 22. Nf3# {[%emt 0:0:3]Mate} 1-0
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/briand...d/#1f97031170f9
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Excerpt from this Forbes article:
"From 1789 to 1913, the size of the federal government in the economy as a whole averaged about 3%, with variation in time of war. Today, that number is over 20%—a 7-fold increase. State and local government was another 3% back then, and is another 12% today. Where total government was 6% of economic output in the era of the tariff, it is five times larger at over 30% today.
A reason government was small under the tariff was that it was widely understood that government and its functionaries are objectionable. The tariff communicated this lesson inherently and explicitly. Because the tariff was a list displaying cronyism and making no play for being enlightened or fair, it did not demand respect. The quid pro quo the populace made with the tariff is that Congress and its conspirators in business got their favors, but in turn Congress’s realm, the government, had to stay small.
Therefore, the private economy was free to survey immense horizons. Boundless growth at the hands of entrepreneurs and a talented and ambitious workforce built up year after year as Congress got to curry its petty favors on the condition that government stayed limited in size ..."
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Mildly interesting game illustrating how much defense is afforded by castling ...
and how much is lost by failing to do so.
1. e4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 2. f4 {[%emt 0:0:1]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 3. d3 {[%emt 0:0:10]} d6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 4. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Bg4 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 5. Be2 {[%emt 0:0:6]} exf4 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 6. Bxf4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Nh5 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 7. Qd2 {[%emt 0:0:14]} Bxf3 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 8. Bxf3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Qh4+ {[%emt 0:0:6]} 9. g3 {[%emt 0:0:15]} Qh3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 10. Kf2 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Nxf4 {[%emt 0:0:24]} 11. Qxf4 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Be7 {[%emt 0:0:27]} 12. Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 13. Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Bd8 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 14. Raf1 {[%emt 0:0:18]} c6 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 15. Ne3 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Bb6 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 16. Ke2 {[%emt 0:0:19]} Bxe3 {[%emt 0:1:10]} 17. Qxe3 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Nd7 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 18. d4 {[%emt 0:0:9]} c5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 19. c3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} cxd4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 20. cxd4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Nb6 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 21. b3 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Rac8 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 22. Kd2 {[%emt 0:0:10]} Qd7 {[%emt 0:0:18]} 23. h3 {[%emt 0:0:27]} Qb5 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 24. Be2 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Qa5+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} 25. Kd1 {[%emt 0:0:11]} Qxa2 {[%emt 0:0:19]} 26. Ke1 {[%emt 0:0:13]} Qb2 {[%emt 0:0:54]} 27. Kf2 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Rc3 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 28. Qf4 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Qxb3 {[%emt 0:0:16]} 29. Qxd6 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Rc6 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 30. Qe5 {[%emt 0:0:18]} Re6 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 31. Qg5 {[%emt 0:0:20]} Qb2 {[%emt 0:0:14]} 32. Rd1 {[%emt 0:0:22]} Rf6+ {[%emt 0:0:17]} 33. Ke1 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Qc3+ {[%emt 0:0:13]} 34. Qd2 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Qxg3# {[%emt 0:0:3]Mate} 0-1
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Hmm.
Initial search results aren't too promising...
I remembered an exact phrase used by Kistler in the alluded to retrospective that went "[While] nowhere near as cold-blooded as the early Batman ..."
And I found that phrase as a lone search item via Google just now.
Unfortunately, it occurs no longer as a 2 or 3 part article but rather as a small part of a Wikipedia page. Alas, sometimes "progress" is regressive and destructive...
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Havent done one of these in a while here so...
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