1.e4-e5 2.nf3-nc6

Cleat Eastwood
Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
edited June 2013 in The bottom bracket
Bishop b5, the legendary ruy lopez, not to be confused with Roy Cropper who invented a chess move based on the number of steps it took him to get home from t'pub

the correct response to 3.Bb5 is,as Ray Keene pointed out a dancing llama

then you castle

either Barbara

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or Roy

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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Comments

  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    Castle or cancer?
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    You've started early Cleat. :)
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    And I thought this was about Boden-K Gambit ! :)
    Living MY dream.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    VTech wrote:
    And I thought this was about Boden-K Gambit ! :)


    Ah no, you're confusing it with this :lol:
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    I would tend to e7 and encourage bxn

    I'm more of a queens gambit kind of a guy ... Jose raul capablanca y graupera was my boyhood hero
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    That's a7 of course
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Mikey23 wrote:
    That's a7 of course


    I see, the famous don't move the pawn at all move, excellent.

    Of course benko posited a variation [3...a6 4.Ba4 Nf3 5.f3 ] but that leads to this complication
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    ah, catbounce variation ... very cunning. my clock is ticking away...