Wednesday, July 13, 2011

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 f5!?

In a former post,it has been shown that Mike Basman played some original openings in Sutton 2008 such as 1.f4 d5 2.c4, 1.d4 f5 2.g3 c5, 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 f5 and 1.e4 c5 2.c3 f5.
The trend (still early to label it as a "fashion") to mix an early c5 + f5 seems to have spread as even IM Kamran Shirazi has recently played this 2..f5 move as well against strong opposition. In fact with Gerard Welling, we found the following game on chessgames.com :

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