Qg4! The Anti-Zhuravlev Giraffe Counterattack in the Vienna Game! 🦒😊 скачать в хорошем качестве

Qg4! The Anti-Zhuravlev Giraffe Counterattack in the Vienna Game! 🦒😊

#chess #viennagame #zhuravlev #giraffeattack ➡️ Buy my book "50+2 Chess Quick Wins: Tactical ideas for exciting chess for beginner players"! US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ3VVW9M UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJ3VVW9M AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CJ44YJ2M ➡️ Blog for full articles and PGN: https://adventuresofachessnoob.com/?p... Last week, I had two consecutive games with different opponents (one on chess.com, and the next on Lichess) where I had the white pieces, and Black played down a specific line of the Zhuravlev Countergambit against my Vienna Game (1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4). Those of you who follow my channel might remember that I discussed the history of this line in Quick Wins #87, including the earliest recorded game by the OG Vienna Game romantic masters (Hamppe — Falkbeer, 1855, Vienna)and the game by namesake Soviet/Latvian IM Valerys Zhuravlev in (Klavins — Zhuravlev, 1969, Riga, Latvia). Check out those games! Now against the Zhuravlev Countergambit on move 3, White has many good moves. The Lichess community database gives statistics on the top 12 most frequently made moves from the position, which had been reached in almost 3 million games. As can be seen, almost all of them give a win ratio advantage to White, but there is one that appears to be categorically better. The 11th most played move, occurring only 1.1% of the time against the Zhuravlev, is one of my favourite moves in chess: 3. Qg4! Although it isn’t the most accurate according to the engine, it’s certainly not a mistake, and White wins 59% to Black 37%! Given the visual similarity to the Giraffe Attack, I call this the Anti-Zhuravlev Giraffe Counterattack. The fascinating thing about this Giraffe-ish attack is its propensity to induce a blunder from Black, even at the intermediate level! The obvious threat from the giraffe queen is the attack on Black’s g7 pawn. In both of my consecutive games, Black responded to this threat with the sensible looking (3… Qf6), developing the queen and defending the g-pawn. This response by Black is the second most played move (26%), which is only slightly less frequent (29%) than Black committing to an exchange (3… Bxc3). However, the move is a blunder, and White wins from the position 80% to Black 18%! Yes, in the position White has over four times the odds of winning compared to Black, and it’s only at the end of turn 3! Wow! 🤩 The reason is that White now has (4. Nd5!), a triple fork of Black’s bishop, queen, and c7-pawn (which comes with an absolute fork of Black’s king and rook). According to the engine, White is better than [+5] in the position. Fundamentally, Black cannot defend both their g-pawn (from White’s queen) and their c-pawn (from White’s knight) with a single move of their queen. The big takeaway from this game is that if you are a Vienna Game aficionado, try the (3. Qg4) anti-Zhuravlev Giraffe Counterattack! I think you’d like it! 🤩 Game 1: https://www.chess.com/game/live/11871... Game 2: https://www.chess.com/analysis/librar...