In his 1976 book on the Vienna Game, chess author Tim Harding analyzed a particularly sharp line.
#MODERN CHESS OPENINGS KNIGHT PAWN DEFENSE SERIES#
World Champion himself – Magnus Carlsen – used it to beat Evgeny Tomashevsky in a blitz game in World Blitz Championship 2015.įor more information on the Hillbilly Attack, I highly recommend the following article by Ginger GM Simon Williams (who also made a whole video series devoted to this opening) In contrast to some other variations mentioned in this post, The Hillbilly Attack is relatively playable.
Nc3 * your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts The opening moves of The Fried Liver Attack are: In The Oxford Companion To Chess, David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld speculated that the name implies that the sacrifice of White’s knight is like a slice of liver used as bait in a trap 1 (in the Italian language, the word Fegatello is an idiom meaning “dead as a piece of liver”). Since the sacrifice leads to a position where the Black king has to endure an attack in the center, the variation later became known as The Fegatello or Fried Liver Attack. LIST OF WEIRD CHESS OPENINGSĪ variation of the Two Knights Defence including a Knight sacrifice on f7 first appeared in a game between two Italian Masters in 1610. As for the rest, you will have to put up with my dubious writing style and pitiful humour attempts. Unfortunately for the reader, I was able to do so for only a small sample of openings considered. I have tried to find the origin of the name whenever possible. The name of the variation is followed up with the actual moves and some of my comments.
An article devoted to weird chess openings – openings that have funny, cool, entertaining or just plain weird names. Today, I am able to present you with the result of my work. It took me a while to actually sit down, do the research and write it. But I immediately realized it would be an interesting topic for an extended, more thorough and researched article. I wrote a short, but a rather superficial answer. Some time ago, I stumbled on an entertaining question on Quora titled What are the coolest chess opening names. No, this is not a post about the London System.