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Now you learned "knight"mare... So what?

Opening
In my older blog, I said "I put my pencil to my pocket for a while". But I wanna write a blog again. I won't give up until my blogs make it onto the Best list. So let me just explain you what's the opponent's "Knight"mare Opening.

A rare chess opening

I think you don't play and sacrificed your knight in the opening. But this opening does them. With playing this opening, you will make your opponent resign. Because you get your opponent's queen so easily.

The "Knight"mare opening

https://lichess.org/study/efZ7kMgW

In this opening you play Ne2!? in the second move. You blocked the path of your queen and bishop. But why? You will learn.
Than your opponent plays Nf6 for attacking your pawn. Then you play f5!?. You give up a pawn but, you will see why we gave a pawn.

After f4: Taking the e pawn

https://lichess.org/study/efZ7kMgW/6BmOsyb4

In that position, if your opponent takes your e4 pawn, you can easily play d3 and push back his knight. Than the knight moves, you just take the e5 pawn and the game is equal but you're in a better position.

After f4: Taking the f pawn

https://lichess.org/study/efZ7kMgW/a9jGz6JX

If your opponent takes your f pawn with exf4, you take it with Nxf4. If he thinks "I see a free pawn!", you play Qe2! and pin him! And his knight is ready for be taken but he says "No, you can't take my knight!" and plays Qe7?. He is thinking "Now he can't take my knight.". BUT NO. You are a genius and play Nd5!. Wanting a rook-king fork and wanting the queen.

How To Defend It?

And your opponent played Qe5 defending the c7 square and the e4 knight. But you want the knight and you play Nbc3!. A double... It's half attack and half defense you can name it whatever you want so you want his knight and defend your knight. But you opponent plays c6.
Don't forget to mention in the forum what you call the Nbc3 move!

Sacrifice Is Coming

And then... you just sacrifice your knight with playing d4!!. You want the queen and if the queen takes you will open the e-file. But the only move is taking it.
And you don't take the knight with the queen because you don't wanna trade queens so you have to take it with your c3 knight.

After Nxe4: Taking the knight with Qxd5

https://lichess.org/study/efZ7kMgW/yicUjcwt

Qxd5 is a big blunder because you have the only move Nf6+!. It's a discovered check, double check and a fork. You can only say fork or double check or discovered check, whatever you want.

After Nxe4: Taking the knight with cxd5??

https://lichess.org/study/efZ7kMgW/56YGmkjw

In that position, your opponent took the knight with his PAWN!?. What?. You will just win the game with the right moves.
So your attack starts with Nd6+!, another double check and discovered check. Kd8 is the only move. After Kd8, you play Qe8+!. Then he plays Kc7 because it's the only move too. Now you play Nb5+! and forking the king and the queen. He plays Kb6 but you don't take the queen right now because if you take your queen will be gone. So you play Qd8+ at first, then he goes Ka6.
After Ka6, you have to take the queen and do a discovered check. He plays the only move b5. But you don't take the pawn. You have to play Qc7!. Now you're walking to checkmate your opponent.

Practice of this opening

https://lichess.org/study/efZ7kMgW/MLZuTNKB

Whatever he does, he gets checkmated with Bxb5+#.

I don't put my pencil to my pocket for you!

Don't forget to read my another blogs. I will write until one of my blogs enter the Best list.

When one of my blogs enter the best list, I will write again!

@Kaan_Burak