This is an awesome blog.
If there is a RHP Hall of Fame, Morgski is a charter member, with a special nod to TimmyBx for getting this all started!
And the section on the Pillsbury mate is spectacular, especially so because there were so many samples from GP's RHP database.
A truly great blend of entertainment and practical chess knowledge.
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Originally posted by greenpawn34Quite by coincidence, I happened on a Pillsbury dance today in a book I'm reading. (The book is A. Roisman, 400 Kurzpartien, and it's given me another idea for another day.) I'm truncating the game from where it gets relevant:
Loads of examples of the Pillsbury Mate.
Richard
I was inspired by morgski and greenpawn34 to play the Icelandic Gambit in my game tonight at my local chess club here in Colorado Springs. I don't think it was precisely an Icelandic Gambit, but I did sac the c6 pawn, so probably close enough 🙂
It was a fun game - 2 exchange sacrifices, and 1 exchange blunder 😛
Thanks for the inspiration guys! You are the wind beneath my wings!! 😀
Nice Tim, you play a good endgame 🙂
I played to Icelandic Gambit for the first time for GP's blog, but have tested it since OTB against my mate and finding it is quite a good opening. Or at least, it throws a spanner in whatever e4 opening white had planned.
Do any of those much cleverer people out there know if it is a sound opening or has someone a major flaw? Would be interesting to know...
It's possibly best to look for one.
Unknown you are playing it with all confidence in the world.
It's enough to know that if White tries to hang onto the pawn then Black
is going to have some fun and White some problems to solve.
If such play suits you then OTB you cannot really ask for much more than
that with Black.
Originally posted by greenpawn34I really like this gambit 😀
It's possibly best to look for one.
Unknown you are playing it with all confidence in the world.
It's enough to know that if White tries to hang onto the pawn then Black
is going to have some fun and White some problems to solve.
If such play suits you then OTB you cannot really ask for much more than
that with Black.