A wandering American perspective on England, chess & bananas

[Paul Cooksey]

If you've been affected by any of the bad "jokes" in the post immediately above this thread...

Hard, but fair. I was quite pleased with Quince Gambit

[Alex Holowczak]

If you've been affected by any of the bad "jokes" in the post immediately above this thread...

Hard, but fair. I was quite pleased with Quince Gambit

The effort you went to to come up with those was not in question.

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...

[Geoff Chandler]

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.

[John Clarke]

Geoff, nice.... What other fruits can you open with?

Damme, this is hard when there's no "i", "o" or "y" available! (In the languages I know some words of, anyway.)

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.