The Santa Claus Opening
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ThrillerFan
Mar 21, 2016
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Welcome back Arcieus.
Wonderful Idea Harish73 we can call it the Santa's Queen Defense.
Um, sargentoabel, it will help a lot if you could type in English, not Spanish, I'm sorry if you are not used to English but maybe even just put it through Google Translate
yeah agreed
also, what do u mean by Santa Claus (Jingle Bells) opening? dont really understand
Arcieus wrote:
And who took away my admin?!
I don't know. Fixing...
Arcieus wrote:
Um, sargentoabel, it will help a lot if you could type in English, not Spanish, I'm sorry if you are not used to English but maybe even just put it through Google Translate
Not Google Translate, oh god please no...
USE WORDREFERENCE!
I have a new line! Behold...
The Mrs. Claus attack!
@ post #365 Yes, I believe he is. Name: Jingle Bells defense
@sargentoabel
If you change the move order you have to be very careful.
In your diagram you showed.
The black queen can pick up the rook.
@C-Crusher
Yeah a couple of weeks ago people were recommending that move order you showed.
What I will say is.
If you like that move order than by all means you can play it.
Everyone has the right to play their own special lines!
The whole point of studying opening's & doing home preparation is to come up with a general line which you prefer to play.
I chose the move order 1.e4 e5 2.b3 since it had no offical name.
I haven't found any offical name to this line.
Thus, I named it the Santa Claus Opening.
I even think it is very nice move order.
In most of the mainlines white plays 2.Nf3 hitting the e5 pawn.
In some lines such as the Kings Gambit white plays 2.f4 hitting the e5 pawn.
The idea with 2.b3 is to try and hit the e5 pawn as well from a distance.
It is a more slower approach.
However, I think people underestimate the power of it!
sup
Raymond, are you EVERYWHERE? I see you on almost every forum post!
Why stick with e4 e5? Make it interesting like a3, G4, h5, then e3? Almost no development in the center! It'll be unique!
USSMidwayCCA wrote:
Why stick with e4 e5? Make it interesting like a3, G4, h5, then e3? Almost no development in the center! It'll be unique!
We have already decided that 1.e4 e5 2.b3 is the Santa Claus Opening
Indeed Arcieus is correct.
The 1.e4 e5 2.b3 is the Santa Claus Opening.
We have gathered a nice amount of theory on the resulting positions which seem pretty kool
Sargentoabel showed a new line which I will have to add into the Stocking Variation with Qd6.
Very nice work!
But why Qd6? In the Scandinavian Defence, Black plays Qa5, seems more active and Bb4 following up puts a lot of pressure on the c3 knight
New basic idea: The light squared bishop should go to b5 or g2
When Black has not played Nc6 yet, g3 and Bg2 should be played as if now Bb5, then c6! and the Bishop is chased back. The Bg2 will protect the e4 pawn if the c3 Knight needs to move. An interesting alternative is Bh3! to try to exchange off the bad Bishop for Black's good Bishop, it will make development difficult for Black as d6/d5 is a bad move and if d6/d5 has already been played and Black takes with Bxh3, then Nxh3 and the Knight supports the f4 push from h3
When White is ready to exchange off the Bishop for the Knight, Black gets the two Bishops, but White's most useless minor piece is the light square Bishop whereas the c6 Knight is an important minor piece for Black
When White wants to keep the light square Bishop, this is quite passive with the Knight on f3, Black should go with Nc6, a6, Bc5 to put pressure on d4, White's only freeing move, the other choice is extremely risky, White needs to play g4, h4, and launch an attack on the Black King