No need.
My regular posting habits usually keep this somewhere on the first page of Off-Topic topics. Of course, pinning it to the top SHOULD theoretically make the title goal more feasible. Then it wouldn't be reliant on any one person or even any small group of people bringing it back to fullest community awareness.
Need decent Fall workday weekdays as litmus test.
Summer is slow and weekends are slow on KMC.
Anyway ...
https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-017-0075-2
'Cause it wasn't stickied!
That makes a difference!
Reminds me of a good and amusing online presentation I saw a while ago, though ...
The Englund-Soller Gambit
A sometime favorite of mine when I'm playing Black.
In response to White's "pawn to Queen four" opening (d4), Black offers his King's pawn (e5). If that is taken by White (dxe5), Black offers up his King's Bishop pawn, too (f6). If THAT is taken (exf6), well, Black has several choices he can make at that point, including ignoring White's pawn altogether.
It depends on how dangerous or unsound you want to be.
This opening, if accepted, as outlined on a previous page or two, gives up 2 pawns in exchange for the potential for clear files and a shift in who has the advantage of tempo. Notice that, after capturing White's pawn with my knight, I am a move "ahead" of my opponent; his knight moves after mine, even though he started the game first. Should I choose to castle, I can do so now in two moves, my opponent will take at least 3 turns to reach the same point.
After I castled in this particular game, White attacked my king with his bishop.
This is normally a speedy way to aid piece development; here it just gets that bishop chased away and gives me the chance to use my own bishop to pin one of his knights to his Queen's protection. It also gives me the chance to try and trap that running bishop.
During these next 6 moves:
Opponent bishop captured by my knight.
Almost unignorable by my opponent because my opponent's rook is threatened afterwards.
Opponent surprises me by avenging with a pawn instead of his knight, but one of the general sayings in chess is "a knight on the rim (edge of the board) is dim".
Opponent probably wants to keep that piece centralized, and, similarly, close enough to guard its "brother".
To the threat of my bishop being taken by my opponent's King's Rook pawn, I TAKE his King's Rook pawn. I need his king opened up to attack more than I need my bishop, whether I'm in point deficit or not.
My response to my opponent's knight targeting my lone remaining bishop is to dutifully ignore it. Relative to other players, I'm not sure I know what bishops are supposed to do anyway, so I don't worry about them when they're on my side.
Conversely, when they're on the other side, I'll take them out before anything else, unless there's a REALLY good reason for not doing so. Even if, say, I'm given a choice between taking a rook versus taking a bishop, the bishop goes.
Also, I've got a trap for my opponent, which he actually springs by taking that.
My rook takes out his OTHER knight, and, in response to his taking a pawn to clear space for his remaining bishop, I clear his rook pawn, too.
This move is a double check to his king. With rook AND queen targeting simultaneously, there's no chance to block or take other pieces.
The only choice available is to move his King, but my opponent instantly sees this would result in checkmate (...Qh1), and so he resigns.
He's still ahead 2 points if you ignore the worth of the king and victory.
Which is effectively the point cost to run a Soller gambit to begin with.
Those pawns proved well worth the time and initiative advantages they earned.
Log to a recent game.
Opponent spent overmuch time chasing my knight around. If he'd chosen a different piece, I'd probably have let him take it. A somewhat fun game-within-a-game seeing if he could snare or I could escape while it lasted ...
1. e4 {[%emt 0:0:1]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 2. e5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 3. f3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Nc5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 4. d4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Na4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 5. b3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Nb6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 6. c4 {[%emt 0:0:5]} d6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 7. exd6 {[%emt 0:0:11]} cxd6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 8. Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:1]} N6d7 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 9. Bd3 {[%emt 0:0:1]} Qa5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 10. Bd2 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Na6 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 11. Nge2 {[%emt 0:0:32]} Nb4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 12. Qb1 {[%emt 0:0:10]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 13. Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Nxd3+ {[%emt 0:0:16]} 14. Qxd3 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Qd8 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 15. 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:12]} Be7 {[%emt 0:0:16]} 16. f4 {[%emt 0:0:22]} exd4 {[%emt 0:0:28]} 17. Nxd4 {[%emt 0:0:21]} Nc5 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 18. Qg3 {[%emt 0:0:15]} Bf6 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 19. Bc3 {[%emt 0:0:32]} Be6 {[%emt 0:0:31]} 20. Nxe6 {[%emt 0:0:26]} fxe6 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 21. Nxf6+ {[%emt 0:0:30]} gxf6 {[%emt 0:0:16]} 22. Rad1 {[%emt 0:0:20]} Qb6 {[%emt 0:0:13]} 23. Kh1 {[%emt 0:0:30]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:23]} 24. Qg7 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 0-0-0 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 25. Bxf6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Rhg8 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 26. Qxh7 {[%emt 0:0:19]} Nxf6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 0-1
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
Riv's likely busy with his food truck.Summertime's generally the best time to earn money with that sort of thing, unless Riv lives in a college town, in which case football season probably is.
College town? How dreadful. Why live in a college town when you can live in the centre of everything. 😆
