@eladar saidWell played. According to Crafty black gets a 1.7 pawn advantage after 8. ... Bxa2, after 8. ... Nc6 it's only 0.58, but either way if black avoids the temptation then you're behind. So 8. Ne4 only works as a trap (as opposed to a pitfall which doesn't cost you anything if black avoids it).
Share your cool checkmate. Just got this one. The game was a 10 min blitz
[pgn][Event "Chessboard Editor at Apronus.com"]
[Site "https://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.php"]
[Date "2020.03.09"]
[Round "-"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
1. d4 d6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 dxe5 4. Qxd8+ Kxd8 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Bd2 Be6 7. O-O-O Bxc4
8. Ne4 Nxe4 9. Bg5+ Kc8 10. Rd8# *
[/p ...[text shortened]... reached the same position through move 5. Not one person played Bd2. Nobody went for this checkmate.
On my database, which consists of the Crafty opening book with duplicates and (most) engine games removed and TWIC going back a decade or so and some other odds and ends and has 3.42 million games on it, the position after 7. 0-0-0 appeared once between two strong players, the game went on for a little longer though, 120 moves. This is Svetushkin, Dmitry (2,501) vs Tikhomirov, Sergei (2,326) 1-0; 2002 Supercom Cup, Bucharest:
Black's opening in the original game in this thread reminded me of a sneaky trick which only two or three people have tried against me in many hundreds of online blitz games where I've played the Old Indian:
So far I haven't fallen for it even when I'm tired.
Edit: Thanks @Eladar, I managed to get it working by putting a line break every four moves rather than every five.
@mynameisklint saidOh wow, love that.
Black's opening in the original game in this thread reminded me of a sneaky trick which only two or three people have tried against me in many hundreds of online blitz games where I've played the Old Indian:
[pgn]1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 e5 4. dxe5 dxe5
5. Qxd8+ Kxd8 6. Bg5 c6 7. O-O-O+ Kc7 8. Ne4 Nxe4
9. Bd8# [/pgn]
So far I haven't fallen for it even when I'm t ...[text shortened]... Eladar, I managed to get it working by putting a line break every four moves rather than every five.
@BigDoggProblem
Helps explain his poisoned pawn. But still your ability to pull off that attack under that time constraint is impressive.
Hi Guys,
If we are showing blitz games then please forgive me for re-posing (sic);
*** Thread 134311***
"Next time you are going to play a blitz session, open up this thread
and rub your finger against my avatar and some of the greenpawn
luck I had in this game might just rub off onto you."
If you cannot be bothered to go to the linked thread and the intro, here it is.
M. Rattray vs. G. Chandler, Bells, Edinburgh. October 2006
(published in 'The Scotsman' newspaper 23rd December 2006.)