I know it looks dumb, but... black can't take e4 I don't think, it actualy seems ok and its quite easy for white to build an attack. The computer lost to a slightly different line;
Originally posted by e4chris I've been trying this line out against the computer and have won once already.
Its so simple and gives black an awful posistion;
[pgn]1.Nf3 Nf6 2.Ng5 e5 3.Nxf7 Kxf7 4.e4 c6[/pgn]
I know it looks dumb, but... black can't take e4 I don't think, it actualy seems ok and its quite easy for white to build an attack. The computer lost to a slightly diffe ...[text shortened]... /pgn]
I've looked it up as the Reti opening, is sacrificing the knight ever part of this?
This sac is no good. How is white supposed to attack when he has no pieces in play?
I can see moves like this working against a weak computer program
because they will take everything on offer and the idea of saccing back
material is not in their make up.
Against humans?
I looked through the RHP DB for this position.
A knight sac on f7 with nothing else developed.
I narrowed it down to three moves in case White played Nc3
so I'm looking for Nf3 - Ne5/g5 - Nf7
I found these three White wins all under 12 moves.
And why not call it a Reti? White played Nf3 the move that
is the Reti trademark.
And Reti played Nf3 and Nxf7......once....and it was kind of delayed.
Witness this very interesting game involving an opening you would
not normally associate with these two great players.
Richard Reti - Akiba Rubinstein Germany 1922.
This is actually a very interesting game with quite a lot going on
behind the scenes. I've pointed a few Reti tricks but there is much
more in this game than that.
Thats a cool game, not sure whats going on around move 18 - 19
The computer lost to this on a high level - it plays at bcf 180 and had 30 sec per move and thinking in my time - was not on easy - and it still lost quite fast. But like you say greenpawn it did make some silly mistakes, tried to attack my king rather then defend the posistion... I will post a game soon, once the one against swissgambit is over.