Living on the Edge in the Scotch Four Knights
Monday, August 21, 2017 at 12:48AM
Dennis Monokroussos in Openings, tactics

Reader Brian Karen's attention was caught by a wild game played a few days ago, which I have annotated for your (and my!) entertainment. Its wildness is mitigated somewhat by the fact that the line has been around since the 1950s, so it's not quite as if the players were discovering America in the late 1400s. Black in particular probably knew everything until around move 20, but there still came a moment when he had to work things out for himself.

Anyway, the game is very lively, and for those looking for training material it would be a good idea to work through an unannotated version of the game first, before looking at my notes. In fact...here's an unannotated version, and here's the game with my notes.

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