after moves 1.e4 e5 2. f4 ef 3. Kf3 as i recently found out black can play a strange move b6!? with idea to meet 4.Bc4 with Ba6 and 4.d4 with Kf6 5.Kc3 Bb4. the strange thing is that RYBKA thinks these ideas i have never seen mentioned anywhere are perfectly fine for black. so question - does anyone know how to deal with this defense or can probably post some games here ( i found only one in database, played by very weak players).
While algebraic notation is used in various countries, different nations have different names for pieces. For example, in German, they call the knight Springer, initial S in notations; and sometimes when they want to address an international audience, a bit ignorant of what initial is for the knight, choose K forgetting that K has already been used for the King.
ok ok, Ba6 is slow. but check out Bb7. i just found an interesting line there - 1.e4 e5 2. f4 ef 3. Nf3 b6 4. Bc4 Bb7 5. 0-0 Be7 6. Ne5 d5 7. ed Bd5 8. Bd5 Qd5 9. d4 Nd7 10. Nc3 Qb7 11. Nd7 Kd7.
i spent an hour trying to find good plan for white here, but without any success. then i checked out what rybka thinks of this (it gives aprox 1.5o better for white), but this evaluation seemed too optimistic to me, so i made an engine game rybka v rybka, which started from this position and the result was draw.
btw, black is very ok also after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 ef 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 Nf6!? which is very rare continuation, so why wouldnt they be after 3... b6? i mean - it is logical that there are a lot of good defenses against such an unsound opening, and some of them might be a little unexploited, but it doesnt mean that they are not good.