I want to share a very short game with you. Why ?
First of all this game resembles the king attack from the Damiano defense, which was one of the first things that my first chess teacher showed me. As a teenager it made a big impression on me. Second of all the tactic itself is quite nice and not that easy to find.
en.lichess.org/GCg5HKvF/white#15
Bxb7 is the winning move from the Damiano defense king attack.
Here however the opening is different. It looks like Damiano defense but it is not exactly the same.
My memory, and will to proceed was stronger than the will to calculate all options. As you can see I even failed to apply the simple capture-and-check checking rule, overlooking Qg3+!
Third of all, I think that it is useful to share more about the weakening of the e8-h5 diagonal, by pushing the f pawn.
This weakening+tactics can also apply to Bird's and Dutch defense openings, as well as some Tennison gambit and Ruy Lopez Schliemann/Jaenish lines.
More on Damiano defense :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damiano_Defence
Game collection :
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1005248
First of all this game resembles the king attack from the Damiano defense, which was one of the first things that my first chess teacher showed me. As a teenager it made a big impression on me. Second of all the tactic itself is quite nice and not that easy to find.
en.lichess.org/GCg5HKvF/white#15
Bxb7 is the winning move from the Damiano defense king attack.
Here however the opening is different. It looks like Damiano defense but it is not exactly the same.
My memory, and will to proceed was stronger than the will to calculate all options. As you can see I even failed to apply the simple capture-and-check checking rule, overlooking Qg3+!
Third of all, I think that it is useful to share more about the weakening of the e8-h5 diagonal, by pushing the f pawn.
This weakening+tactics can also apply to Bird's and Dutch defense openings, as well as some Tennison gambit and Ruy Lopez Schliemann/Jaenish lines.
More on Damiano defense :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damiano_Defence
Game collection :
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1005248