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    A novelty on move 2

    March 22, 2018

    Chessdom has an article with this provocative title: A novelty on move 2, the earliest in chess history?

    http://www.chessdom.com/a-novelty-on...chess-history/

    The 2018 Spring Chess Classic was an exciting event by the STL Chess Club, comprised of two 10 player round robins. The A group was won by GM Jeffery Xiong who scored 6,5/10 and with the ELO gain will return to the world top 100 players. (replay the games with analysis here)

    One of the most interesting games of the round occurred in round 8 between GM Samuel Shankland and GM Alexander Ipatov. Shankland opened with 1.d4 and everyone thought there must have been a transmission error when Ipatov's reply was reported as 1...Na6.

    However, the move was correct and it was about to get stranger. 2.c4 was met by 2...e5. GM Ipatov tweeted after the game, - after 10 mins of creative over-the-board brainstorming of what to play against the always well-prepared Sam Shankland, I played a novelty as early as move 2. My 17 million game database confirms that! [...]

    (Mega+Engine+Correspondence databases all in one!)

    The game continued for 39 moves and finished in a draw.

    The article gives six previous examples of the new opening. Three of them are between Komodo versions!

    The game:

    2018 Spring Chess Classic A
    St. Louis, Mo
    Round 8, Mar. 13, 2018
    Shankland, Samuel - Ipatov, Alexander
    A40 Queen's Pawn game

    1.d4 Na6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Bf5 5.Bg5 Qd7 6.Nc3 dxe5 7.Qxd7+ Bxd7 8.Nxe5 Be6 9.Bf4 O-O-O 10.e3 Nf6 11.Be2 Bb4 12.O-O Bxc3 13.bxc3 Ne4 14.Rfc1 Rd2 15.Bf3 f5 16.Bg3 Rhd8 17.Bh4 R8d6 18.Be7 Rb6 19.Rd1 Rbb2 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Rxd2 Rxd2 22.Kf1 Nb8 23.Ke1 Rc2 24.Rd1 Nd7 25.Nxd7 Bxd7 26.Rd4 Rxa2 27.Rxe4 Ra1+ 28.Kd2 Ra2+ 29.Ke1 a5 30.Rh4 a4 31.Rxh7 b6 32.Rh8+ Kb7 33.Rd8 Ra1+ 34.Ke2 Be6 35.Rd1 Bxc4+ 36.Ke1 Ra2 37.Rd2 Ra1+ 38.Rd1 Ra2 39.Rd2 Ra1+ 1/2-1/2

    Position after 2..e5

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