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Cleaner, meatier cuts that show the danger of this surprise weaponThe Lemur Gambit:
The story goes, years ago in the quest to find move order improvements for my BDG, I discovered this Stafford-esque variant.
It's been a few years since my last blog post. I got sidetracked with some personal events in my life, but my research into this sublime and different opening system continued and I've gotten much better at playing it.
The value in this opening is that many people will default to their BDG style defense against it, and many of the popular BDG moves actually fail.
g6, Bf5, e6, Bf4, c6, and c5 are all theoretically equal, according to my research. I haven't seen c6 or Nd7 enough to develop familiarity advantage with those yet, but I checked and they looked fine. Actually the only move to play for an advantage for Black in this position is 6...e5! which I do see but still score well against.
g6 is rather shockingly... a noncritical defense!
A queen sac! However it is a fake queen sac, leading to a tactical win. Titled players will squirm but it is futile.
Strong players are always on the lookout for piece sacs when they're defending. However, the 2nd piece sac is really hard to see.
Same trap again. With best play white is +2 in an endgame.
