This game started out as a routine, Classical Scotch Game, but then on move 6, I decided to unleash the unpredictable (and no doubt unsound) 'Blumenfeld Attack'. This variation got very interesting when my opponent took a gamble and decided to give his Rook away early on a8. I used the word 'bamboozle' in this post's title, because on move 8. Kd2?! my opponent took over 30 mins to cook up his next sequence of moves !!! Unfortunately I was unable to write all the moves down om my score sheet, as the rules state that in the final 5 minutes of the game the player is not obliged to do so, but luckily I remembered the final few moves in the time scramble ... !!! The outcome was that my opponent got his queen pinned to their King, by my Rook. Finally, he tried to move this piece (illegally) to check me in a bit of a rush, but I had to remind him that his piece was actually pinned and then he realised that he'd incurred a two minute penalty ... He resigned with this in mind.
I had a few opportunities to really give my opponent a hard time in this example of an Alekhine's Defense (Chase Variation), but annoyingly I didn't play Rd1 on Move 22 which would have obviously posed a few problems for my opponent!
"Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness; therein lies its peculiar charm, and intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys of human existence".
Dr Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934), The Game of Chess, 1936, translated by G.E. SMITH and T.G. BONE.
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