How To Beat The Aggressive Gunman If The Game Is Important For You

 

How To Beat The Aggressive Gunman If The Game Is Important For You 

  

(by Yury V. Bukayev) 

 

 

Let’s consider the terrible situation. You are ready to play the chess game as Black against your opponent with a protocol and with no witnesses, but suddenly he… aims his hidden pistol at you and makes his four moves in succession: 1.e4, 2.c4, 3.Nc3, 4.Nf3. Then he shows you the filled “protocol” of the “game”: “1.e4 Nc6 2.c4 Nb8 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Nf3 Nb8. Black resigned”. 

What to do? Let’s consider the case where the result of this game is extremely important for you and where you aren’t sure that somebody can defend you and your rights effectively in future. 

The situation is really difficult. But here is the first method for you. You can say him: “Yes, I agree. Give me this protocol. Well. Approach me to sign this protocol”. He will let the pistol out of his hand to take a pen. And here you must snatch this pistol, aim it at him and say him: “Seat down. Well. You must fill the empty sheet to form another protocol with the same your moves: 1.e4 e5 2.c4 Bc5 3.Nc3 Qh4 4.Nf3 Qxf2#. You must add Black’s moves on the board, sign this new protocol and return it.” After these his acts you must contact the police. 

Thus, in fact, you beat this aggressive gunman by his own “pistol rules”, because you make your four moves in succession (1…e5, 2…Bc5, 3…Qh4, 4…Qxf2#) after his ones. So you stop this “war” by this beautiful method. 

It is normal that we don’t see a gambit here. Gambits are interesting in a real chess only. For example, in a normal chess game after 1.e4 e5 2.c4 Bc5 my following new gambit idea is possible: 3.Be2!? N Qh4 (of course, I don’t recommend the weak Jerome-ish 3…Bxf2+ 4.Kxf2 Qh4+ with …Qxe4) 4.g3 Qxe4 5.Nf3, and White has enough compensation for his sacrificed pawn.