1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Qe2

[James Pratt]

Has anybody got anything on 1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Qe2. Basman alerted me to this donkey's years ago and it featured in the Wall-Berry clash given hereabouts recently ... I am writing about it but find almost no word, certainly not recent or learned, to guide me. Obvious it is a rarity.
Please, where should I be looking?
James

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

365chess.com has six games - three of them with Basman as White!
https://www.365chess.com/opening.php?m= ... g_explorer

It does not contain this one, apparently won by Basman in Paris, 1982, against someone who wishes to remain anonymous:
https://lichess.org/AOP5W9KJ

[Reg Clucas]

Try googling 'Carrera Gambit'.

[John Upham]

Has anybody got anything on 1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Qe2. Basman alerted me to this donkey's years ago and it featured in the Wall-Berry clash given hereabouts recently ... I am writing about it but find almost no word, certainly not recent or learned, to guide me. Obvious it is a rarity.
Please, where should I be looking?
James

There are 12 games in MegaBase 2024 the most recent of which was played in 2015 by GM Michal Olszewski (POL)

If you allow for transpositions such as 3. Qe2 d5 4. ed: Be7 then many more appear.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5% ... ss_player)

I can turn these games into a .cbv or .pgn archive if required.

[James Pratt]

Thank you. Will investigate
James

[Andrew Martin]

Are you trying to get your grade down?

[James Pratt]

Yes John required. No Andrew although sending best wishes..

[Kevin Thurlow]

I sat next to Milner-Barry when he played 3.Qf3 with a quick win...

[Roger de Coverly]

I sat next to Milner-Barry when he played 3.Qf3 with a quick win...

Isn't Basman's 3. Qe2 an attempted improvement on 3. Qf3?

I had a gane in the Kings Gambit this afternoon where the Stockfish evaluation didn't move beyond 0.1 and -0.1 for the whole game. That is apart from Black's second move where it says that 2. .. exf4 should be played with a half pawn advantage to Black. I actually played 2. .. Bc5.

Another thought is that there's a relatively rare line of the French which runs 1. e4 e6 2. Qe2 e5. In this position 3. f4 is a tempo ahead of the Basman line. I found some games where the late Mark Whitehead gave it a try.

[Neil_Hickman]

Another thought is that there's a relatively rare line of the French which runs 1. e4 e6 2. Qe2 e5. In this position 3. f4 is a tempo ahead of the Basman line. I found some games where the late Mark Whitehead gave it a try.

The Chesstempo database gives 65 games in this line, including an experiment by Sokolov in 1982 which ended in a 16-move draw.

I remember that facing the Chigorin 2.Qe2 in a quickplay competition some years ago I played 2...d6 essentially to get out of the book, but I suspect that ...e5 followed.

[John Townsend]

How about 3...b6 as a reply, opening up the choice of two good squares for the bishop?