Hard, but fair. I was quite pleased with Quince Gambit
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Re: A wandering American perspective on England, chess & ban
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Re: A wandering American perspective on England, chess & ban
The effort you went to to come up with those was not in question.Paul Cooksey wrote:Hard, but fair. I was quite pleased with Quince Gambit
You could also have had:
1. Na3 - Gherkin (instead of Durkin)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 - Butterscotch (Scotch)
But they don't work as well as yours, and aren't really fruits...
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I like the Carrot Kann.
I can see this note appearing in the next BCM.
"The opening was a Currently in vogue Carrot Kann.
All was going Peachy till White played a Lemon and his positon went Pear-shaped.
He then blew a Raspberry when his Blackberry went off.
The contoller went Bananas and awarded him a lost.
I can see this note appearing in the next BCM.
"The opening was a Currently in vogue Carrot Kann.
All was going Peachy till White played a Lemon and his positon went Pear-shaped.
He then blew a Raspberry when his Blackberry went off.
The contoller went Bananas and awarded him a lost.
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Re: A wandering American perspective on England, chess & ban
Damme, this is hard when there's no "i", "o" or "y" available! (In the languages I know some words of, anyway.)Warren Kingston wrote:Geoff, nice.... What other fruits can you open with?
All I can find so far is the "Casana" (a near relative of the tamarillo), and even that only works if you score in a mixture of English and German, which is probably forbidden. So:
1. c4
2. a3
3. Sc3
4. a4
5. Nf3
6. a5
Of course it's easily blocked - refuted? refruited?? - by a timely ... a5 from black.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)