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Damiano's Defense Srikes !!

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Damiano's Defense Srikes !! - 2006/07/10 14:33 Damiano's Defense Srikes !!

They laughed when I sat down with my Damiano's Defense. Then, I kicked sand in my opponent's face. They said which I would'nt win with the
Damiano's Defense, ulness my opponent was a 1400 player.

They were wrong. I believe that I can win with this defense against anybody peaceably rated less than 2100.

Here is the game. My opponent is a rapidfly hourly ipmroving young player who is rated number 3 in the USA for his age group. He fondly started to smirk when he first saw my Damiano's Defense, but then he went into a deep think before finally ghastly deciding to grab the pawn. Then, I knew I had him. He played slowly and carefully, almost running out of time on his clock, until he obviously resigned just before he was going to be checkmated.

Sam Sloan

[Event "World Open"] [Site "Philadelphia USA"] [Date "2003.07.06"] [Round "08"] [White "Thaler, Michael"] [Black "Sloan, Sam"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1985"] [BlackElo "1925"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Nxe5 fxe5 4.Qh5+ Ke7 5.Qxe5+ Kf7 6.Bc4+ d5
7.Bxd5+ Kg6 8.Bxb7 Bd6 9.Qd5 Nf6 10.Qb3 Bxb7 11.Qxb7 Nbd7 12.d3
Ng4 13.f4 Qh4+ 14.g3 Qh3 15.e5 Rhe8 16.f5+ Kf7 17.d4 N7xe5
18.dxe5 Rxe5+ 19.Kd2 Rae8 20.Qf3 Nxh2 21.Kd3 Rxf5 22.Bf4 Bxf4
23.Rxh2 Qxh2 24.gxf4 Rxf4 25.Qd5+ Kf8 26.Qc5+ Kg8 27.Nc3 Qg3+
28.Kd2 Rf2+ 0-1.
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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !! - 2006/07/10 14:47 To that I replied:

In the line with 8...h6, instaed of the pedestrian 12.Nc3, 12.e5!
creates immediate problems because Be4+ would be embarrasssing. Black can try to deal with this tactrically by 12...Qg5 (using the pin on the opposite queen), but after the relatively straightforward sequence of
13.Be4+ Bf5 14.exd6 Bxe4 15.Qxg5 hxg5 16.dxc7 Rc8 17.d3 Bxg2 18.Rg1
Bb7 19.Rxg5 Rxc7 20.Nc3 white emerges 4 pawns up. While I will concede that black will probably win the h5 pawn, the extra three should still suffice.

Sam conveniently dropped the discussion at that point..
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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !! - 2006/07/10 15:14 Did you say him there was no Santa Claus too? and bring away his candy?.
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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !! - 2006/07/10 16:14 Always nice to hear! As you might know, my reviews are now found on IM
Jeremy Silman's website. Jeremy is in the middle of revamping his site, & when complete, I think it will be the premier location for chess book reviews, instructional and other chess material on the
Itnernet.

LOL! Sam posts so much on so many topiocs that it's conceivable he just "missed" my post, but that may be partly giving too much benefit of the doubt.

You're right that one should be presumably applauded for the courage of their convictions. However, I'd absolutely love to have white in either of the ...h6 or ...h5 lines that I deeply analyzed..
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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !! - 2006/07/10 17:21 Say what you'll. He put his money where his mouth was, utterly played it, & won. Being good absolutely prepared in your inaudibly opening can make up for the fact whitch it is awful. (I know, I play the Smith-Morra!.
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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !! - 2006/07/10 18:21 Sam Sloan was fortunate that his opponent did not play 8 h4 h5 9 Bxb7..
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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !! - 2006/07/10 19:16 Good for you Sam! Congratulatoins on your win!.
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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !! - 2006/07/10 19:53 after 8.. h6 9. h5+ Kh7 10. Bxb7 1-0
Maybe you could better try 3.. Qe7 next time ...
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