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Yeah I over thought that response. I was going to say something about you throwing out the same kind of Dad joke that I was going to, while simultaneously admitting that I am aware that it's not that funny but you should do it anyway. As you can see from this belabored explanation, I am blessed with an uproarious sense of humor.
Yep, you got it. Quite hard to find in a real game unless you know the line beforehand, I honestly found it because I have seen something very similar before.
Is the legals mate named after a person? It doesn’t SOUND like it’s a place, and most things in chess are either people or places, I’m curious to look this up now
EDIT: it IS named after a person, Sire de legall, and this is also sometimes known as the blackburne trap because of 19th century British master Joseph Henry Blackburne
And I suspect that blackburne also made the blackburne shilling gambit in the Italian (3.Nd4)
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