C45: Scotch Game : Schmidt Variation - 1. Interesting that it may be named after him. Steinitz was a guy who proposed the opposite. Grabbing material in the opening sounds like 19th century chess with all these flashy gambits and players being greedy. So black takes a pawn in exchange for losing castling rights. And eventually black is forced to play Kd8. ![]() There's this uncommon line with 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Nb5 Qxe4+. Penguincw: So in the Scotch, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Qh4 I hear it being called the Steinitz version. If Black refrains from castling, this is a good model game, Kasimdzhanov vs E Vladimirov, 2000 I use this as my model game if Black castles in the. Mating Net: I hear you with regards to Spanish theory that is the main reason I like the quick 3.d4. I do humour meself once in a while by playing the Nimzo-Larsen just for laughs in skittles games. I use Sicilian to answer e4 and KID for everything else as black, and I only use e4 as white in serious games. c5, I know the Sicilian relatively well, in a manner of speaking. Qh4 to be trouble-some for me, and I often do not know the Scotch beyond move 5.īut if black plays. Nf3 Nc6 and do wish to study the 500 lines of the Spanish Game. I tend to favour this opening when faced with 1. Not so in the Scotch, so IMHO, Black should take advantage of this opportunity and develop much as we were taught way back when. Development is often an issue for Black in quite a few openings. Since the White d pawn is gone, White does not gain time on the Black c5 Bishop with d4. ![]() Mating Net: Finally some good back and forth regarding 4.Qh4.Īs a White Scotch player, I find the lines with an early Bc5 & Nc6 more challenging than Qh4. I am so far unsuccessful against Fritz in this position. The question is whether the initiative and Bishop pair is enough compensation for the pawn and structural weakness. Show Steinitz some respect! I have not been able to prove any white superiority in the main line 4.♕h4 5.♘c3 ♗b4 6.♗e2 ♕xe4 7.♘db5 ♗xc3+ 8.bxc3 ♔d8 9.0-0 ♘f6 Theory has proved that it is okay, and Steinitz, the first World Champion, thought it was a good move! Offramp: I hate to disagree but 4.Qh4 is black's best move. For when you absolutely positively HAVE to kill everyone in the room RIGHT NOW!! Black needs to take advantage and develop. The e4 pawn may not be poisoned, but the juice is not worth the squeeze. Black's Qh4 is an Anna Kournikova move, it looks spectacular, but rarely wins. Steinitz was the first to come up with the idea.Į4 resigns: I should say, first to popularize the move.įiveofSwords: resigns.yes it is a 'respectable' move and refuting it isnt technically easy.however rookfile is also technically correct.at computer level play black does get a miserable game if white gambits the pawn and at computer level play black is very likely to lose. RookFile: That's good for a few laughs, but if white is willing to gambit the pawn black gets a miserable game. ĭeputy1: Any one know about the Scotch game :Potter variation ?ĥ Nb3 Bb6 I am playing black in e mail game. Thats much better than what I usually play.I will play over those games.Thanks very much. )? Some very respectable players there, but the setup may be refuted. ![]() I suppose so, but is there something wrong with continuing to avoid it by 5.0-0 d6 6.c3 Bg4 (. I try to avoid them by playing 4.Bc5 and transposing into an Italian,but after 5.0-0 Nf6 6.e5 its a complex Two Knights again. ![]() I don't like playing the complicated positions of the 4.Nf6 variation at all.Ĥ.Nf6 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4) Stoned Knight: with all the great russian players there have been, I am surprised that there exists a scotch game but not a vodka one. Sometimes you cant say that following the database line of cg is really good, since some of the lines included in the game was used pre rybka time. sequence on how position was reached with link aboveĩth.Nc3 is the best option of rybka and has been played more time at database.Ĭ database offer 9.Nb5 and 9.f3. Theres only 2 choices move on it and the game is an old gameĩth move of scotch. Explore this opening | Search for sacrifices in this opening.
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