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From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (David Regis=)
Subject: Strange new defence to 1.e4: 1.e4 d6 2.d4 e5!?
Message-ID: <DGC0sx.I16@exeter.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Exeter, UK.
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:50:56 GMT

I have just started playing 1.e4 and was surprised to meet 

 1.e4 d6 2.d4 e5!?

in a recent congress.  Of course I could play 3.Nf3 which transposes
to a Philidor, but it seemed to me that the only way to 'punish'
Black for the odd move order was 

 3.dxe5 dxe5 4.Qxd8+ Kxd8 5.Bc4 f6 6.Be3

Although I won I was worried later about 6...Nd7 and 7...Bc5, which looked
very defensible.

Any comments?

Thanks 


D

P.S. Thanks for all the French Defence suggestions, I'll post a summary
     soon.


From info!dregis Thu Oct 12 14:14:17 BST 1995