A00 Irregular Openings (1.e3 e5 2.Nf3)

I was surpised to see how many named opening lines there were starting with the move 1.e3 when I looked this opening up. Well the move 1.e3 is better at least than the 1.Nh3 I covered yesterday but the e-pawn is still not living up to its full potential if you only move the pawn one square up, so if you grab the e-pawn and want to move it on move one, move it to e4. I am going to do some content about the basics in chess for the beginners in both English and in Finnish in the coming days and or weeks depending how fast I am able to produce the content. If you have any questions about my posts or about chess in general, please leave a comment and I will answer to your questions the best way I can. I have updated the mate in one, two and three sections of the blog again today by adding a few more puzzles there. So today there are 72 positions in mate in ones, mate in two moves has 81, mate in threes has 64, mate in four moves collection contains 35 puzzles, mate in 5 has 16, mate in six moves has 9, mate in seven has two and mate in eleven has one puzzle to solve. All this adds up to 280 different puzzles which you can only see in this blog!

[Event "Corr game 11.5.2004-25.5.2004"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2004.05.11"] [Round "?"] [White "ikke"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A00"] [WhiteElo "1125"] [BlackElo "1849"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "52"] [EventDate "2004.??.??"] {[%evp 9,51,-377,-374,-363,-327,-322,-314,-310,-307,-340,-337,-336,-335,-387, -396,-739,-750,-746,-739,-1738,-892,-1131,-1121,-1139,-1134,-1145,-1127,-1342, -1251,-1310,-1241,-1308,-1209,-2508,-2366,-29981,-29981,-29991,-29989,-29997, -29998,-29998,-29999,-29999]} 1. e3 e5 {[%mdl 32]} 2. Nf3 {[%mdl 32] A00 Irregular Openings} e4 3. Nd4 c5 (3... d5 4. h3 Nf6 5. f3 Bd6 6. fxe4 Nxe4 7. Qf3 Qh4+ 8. Ke2 Ng3+ 9. Kd1 Nxh1 10. c3 Nf2+ 11. Ke2 Ne4 {0-1 (11) Silva, M-Palacios Llancari,J (1809) Juiz de Fora 2014}) 4. Nb5 (4. Ne2 d5 5. d3 exd3 6. Qxd3 Nf6 7. c4 Nc6 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. Nec3 Be6 10. Nxd5 Bxd5 11. Nc3 Nb4 12. Qb1 Bc6 13. a3 Nd5 14. Qe4+ Be7 15. Nxd5 Bxd5 16. Qa4+ Kf8 17. e4 Be6 18. Be3 a6 {Hamad,A (2241)-Naby,S (2331) Tanta 2003 1/2-1/2 (74)}) 4... a6 5. Nd6+ $146 (5. N5c3 Nf6 6. h3 d5 7. a3 Nc6 8. b3 d4 9. Na2 dxe3 10. dxe3 Qxd1+ 11. Kxd1 Be6 12. Bb2 Nd5 13. Bc4 O-O-O 14. Nd2 Be7 15. Ke1 f5 16. g3 Bf6 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. b4 b5 19. Be2 Ne5 {Miniszewski, M-Ptasznik,A (1789) Mielno 2010 0-1 (32)}) 5... Bxd6 6. Nc3 Be7 7. Nxe4 d5 8. Ng3 {Black has a decisive advantage.} Nf6 9. c3 O-O 10. Bd3 Nc6 {[%mdl 32]} 11. Nh5 Ne5 12. Bc2 $2 {-7.39/24 [#]} (12. Bb1 { -3.96/28}) 12... Bg4 $19 13. f3 Bxh5 14. g4 Bg6 15. f4 Bxc2 16. Qxc2 Nexg4 17. h3 Nh6 18. f5 Qd7 19. Rf1 Bd6 20. d4 cxd4 21. cxd4 Rac8 22. Qf2 Ne4 {Black mates.} 23. Qf3 Bg3+ 24. Ke2 Qb5+ 25. Kd1 Qd3+ 26. Bd2 Qxd2# 0-1