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Played the correct moves against Damiano's Defense

I finally played all the correct moves against Damiano's Defense.
Nice. Did someone not manage to draw or beat Fischer by playing the Damiano defense once in a simul?
Thanks for sharing this! I've never seen Damiano's Defense before... almost this entire game is forcing moves! I hope your opponent learned how to refute your moves for future games.
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@Danflora 3... Qe7 is the only playable move. This shows that 2... f6 doesn't defend the pawn at all.
@acgusta2
Excellent!
Your opponent forgot to play the freeing d5 move, hence the game ended real soon.

Damiano's defense is actually one of the first things I learned in chess. And it is a cool lesson because it teaches about the f pawn move opening up tactical ideas in the opening.
Interesting to know is that in a simul against Bobby Fischer a fairly decent player used this opening to pretend he was a weak player, and ... drew the game !
chessstuff.blogspot.nl/2005/04/bobby-fischer-and-damianos-defense.html
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1255180
This posting includes the line with 9.Bxb7! which is a must known move in that opening.
jimwestonchess.blogspot.nl/2006/12/damianos-defense.html

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