B00 Goldsmith Defense (1.e4 h5)

This is one of those offbeat openings that I would not recommend to anyone. There are much better ways to answer 1.e4, for instance, 1...c6, 1...c5, 1...e5 and 1...e6 that should get you a better game than if you play 1...h5. As there are players of all skill levels in the database that I am using as the reference database for these analysis, there are examples even of this opening. In that database there are currently over 6 million games and I get updates to it every week for another 5000+ games. The game below was played in the first round of the 2014 September Glacial Super Casual I tournament. There are eight groups of eight players in round one and only the winner of the group will advance to the next round. Which is probably a good thing considering the slow pace of the tournament. 21 days are reserved for each move and if you do go over that time limit, there are also 21 days in the bank. So you could spend maximum of six weeks thinking about your move. Vacation time would actually increase even that time... Not that you would need to take vacation time with these long time controls. My opponent in this game is actually one that I have played most games against at Red Hot Pawn. Ended up in the same tournaments and same groups for some reason. I have added four mate in ones and one mate in five today. Any feedback you can give me is always much appreciated!

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Move	N	Result	Elo

1.e4	1,166,623	54%	2421
1.d4	947,298	55%	2434
1.Nf3	281,602	56%	2441
1.c4	182,102	56%	2442
1.g3	19,702	56%	2427
1.b3	14,265	54%	2427
1.f4	5,897	48%	2377
1.Nc3	3,801	51%	2384
1.b4	1,756	48%	2380
1.a3	1,206	54%	2404
1.e3	1,068	48%	2408
1.d3	954	50%	2378
1.g4	664	46%	2360
1.h4	446	53%	2374
1.c3	433	51%	2426
1.h3	280	56%	2418
1.a4	110	60%	2466
1.f3	92	46%	2436
1.Nh3	89	66%	2508
1.Na3	42	62%	2482

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1.e4 h5 B00 Goldsmith Defense 2.d4 f6N 2...h4 3.h3 3.Nc3 b6 4.Bg5 Bb7 5.Bc4 Qc8 6.Qf3 e6 7.0-0-0 Be7 8.Nh3 Nf6 9.d5 a6 10.e5 Ng8 11.Bxe7 Nxe7 12.Ng5 Nf5 13.Nxf7 Rf8 14.Ng5 g6 15.Qd3 b5 16.Bb3 c5 17.dxc6 Nxc6 Tsoi,D (2361)-Lugovskoy,M (2474) Sochi 2017 1-0 3...c6 4.Nf3 d5 5.Nbd2 dxe4 6.Nxe4 Bf5 7.Nc5 b6 8.Bd3 Bxd3 9.Nxd3 e6 10.0-0 Nd7 11.Bf4 Ngf6 12.Bg5 Bd6 13.c4 Qc7 14.b4 Ne4 15.Be3 a5 16.c5 bxc5 17.bxc5 Tekeyev,Z (2392) -Dzhumagaliev,Y (2410) Sochi 2018 0-1 (62) 2...g6 3.Nf3 Bh6 4.Bc4 d6 5.Nc3 Be6 6.Bxe6 fxe6 7.Qd3 Bxc1 8.Rxc1 Nd7 9.Ng5 d5 10.Nxe6 Qc8 11.Nxd5 Rb8 12.Ndxc7+ Kf7 13.Qb3 Nf8 14.Nd8+ Kg7 15.Qf7+ Kh6 16.Qxf8+ Kg5 17.h4+ Nun,G (1829)-Piasecki,A (1300) Poznan 2017 1-0 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 e6 5.Nc3 h4 5...Nh6 was called for. 6.d5 Nf7 6.Be3 g4 7.Nd2 f5 8.exf5 White is winning. exf5 9.Qe2 Nf6 9...Nc6 10.Bf4+ Qe7 10.Bg5++- Be7 11.Bxf6 Nc6 12.Bxh8 d6 13.Nd5 Kf8 14.Nxe7 Nxe7 15.Qe3 d5 16.Qh6+ Ke8 17.Bd3 c6 18.0-0-0 Kd7 19.Be5 b5 20.Nb3 Ke8 21.Nc5 White mates. a5 22.Qh8+ Ng8 23.Qxg8+ Ke7 24.Bf6+ Kxf6 25.Qxd8+ Kg6 26.Rde1 Bb7 27.Re6+ Kh5 28.Qf6 g3 29.Qg6# 1–0

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Vierjoki,T

1827

Arayn

1125

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