Originally posted by adam warlock
This line in here can be pretty fun and wild to play and really puts the 2. ... d5 player in shock. If he chickens out things can go to a draw by repetition very early on but if the games get going things can get very messy. Did you know this line?
1. e4 c5 2. f4 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Ng5 Nf6 5. Bc4 Bg4 6. Qxg4 Nxg4 7. Bxf7+
[fen]rn1qkb1r/pp2pBpp/8/2p3N1/4pPn1/8/PPPP2PP/RNB1K2R b KQkq - 0 7[/fen]
Yeah I think this line had some kind of article in Chess Life one month. That said, I'm not sure that justifies 2. f4 over 2. Nc3. I never understand the rationale behind 2. f4 anyway. It's fairly apparent that the knight will go to c3, so why not cut down on Black's options by not allowing 2...d5. Have you ever seen this line:
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5
It's basically an attempt to play an improved GPA by chopping on c6 one move earlier. That said, the main line is 3...Nd4, but there are some funny independent lines, such as:
3...Nd4 4. Bc4 e6 5. Nge2 Nf6 6. 0-0 d5? 7. ed ed 8. Nd5! Nd5 9. Nd4 cd 10. Qh5!
And Black is busted. Gawain Jones is also a specialist in this line, and put two nice chapters on this line in his GPA book since it bears some similarities.