Raf1, a “blunder” (from -2 to -6 in evaluation), this was only if my opponent with the black pieces found the only good move, which wasn’t at all obvious. While Stockfish rated my penultimate move of the game, 19. With that part of the board being wide-open, it gave me the opportunity to launch a strong counterattack.
The critical error made by my opponent was castling short. Having lost all three king-side (f-, g-, and h-pawns), the king was better protected and placed, behind my pawns controlling the centre. This game otherwise went down a fairly weird path, with my king entering the centre of the board. The thing to learn against this line of attack from black is to be willing to move the king and give up the right to castle, something that might be a bit counterintuitive. Playing f4 weakens the dark squared diagonal to the king, something that my opponent cleverly exploited well. So, I was quite excited to see that the Vienna Gambit, a straight up f4 on move 3, was playable in the Max Lange Defense.Īs you will see in this game, however, I make a mistake in the opening fairly quickly. I personally find this a bit depressing as I don’t particularly like playing those lines, which tend to be more positional. The Max Lange Defense is a fairly solid response to the Vienna and in fact, if both players make the best moves, you might end up transposing into either the three- or four-knights defense or an Italian Game. Anyways the amount of people that dislike the vienna makes me feel like I should at least consider other. I only realised these past 2 weeks that the Scotch exists. The Italian game is literally what I hate about the 2knights vienna. I’d watched their video on a variation of the Vienna Gambit from the Max Lange Defense line of the Vienna Game. The ruy Lopez lines that dont lead to 'drawish ' positions look kinda scary, but the drawish lines look ugly. Recently, I discovered another chess content creator on YouTube and, Boot Camp Chess.
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