I saw this as a bilitz game recently, does this opening have a name?
[White “BouarabaMax”]
[Black “Pegaze”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “2047”]
[BlackElo “2316”]
[ECO “A04”]
[TimeControl “180”]
Under ECO coding, its A04. Reti Opening or Zukertort Opening.
http://www.sahovski.com/other/index.php?other=5#A
I’d play 3. d3 and make Black kick the N again. I don’t think this gambit is very, um, challenging to White. But he should be willing to use a different setup from the usual Reti, in return for the free pawn.
The Russians used to label things like this “Неправильный.” In context it meant “Irregular,” but the literal translation was “Incorrect Opening.”
I knew the first move was that of a Reti (barring transpositions), but wondered if Black’s first gave the opening a new name like Pegaze Counter-gambit or if there was another name for it.
White starts as a Reti, of course, but I think Black’s play here is more properly referred to as the “Counter Reti Accelerated Polish”. I think there was also an acronym for that line but I can’t recall at the moment what it was.
In Unorthodox Openings, Schiller calls this (1.Nf3 g5) the Herrstrom Gambit, and recommends 3.d3. He says that it’s a foolish gambit.
Alex Relyea
Herrstrom Gambit
I wonder if Herrstrom ever agreed to have his or her name attached to that thing. It could be legally actionable …
He could join in a class-action suit with Damiano.
Let’s not forget Mr. Durkin! The lawyers will certainly want to enlist him as well.
Robert Durkin actually played 1. N-QR3. Not against me though, because he had Black.
Yes - it was actually (further) nicknamed the “sodium attack” - because of the commonality between its algebraic designation “Na3” and the symbol for sodium, “Na”.
Heh I don’t think I have heard of that, and usually the “middle name” was said in descriptive. I was in Wilmington and he came over for the Delaware Open that year. Is Bird’s Opening ever called the Fluorine Attack?