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The Drunken Sailor Attack

This is a dubious opening against the Nimzo-Larsen that my friends and I call "The Drunken Sailor Attack." Here is a full game with it.

https://lichess.org/nlsd4AXx/black#4

This is a dubious opening against the Nimzo-Larsen that my friends and I call "The Drunken Sailor Attack." Here is a full game with it. https://lichess.org/nlsd4AXx/black#4

I knew that was gonna be an inaccuracy!

I knew that was gonna be an inaccuracy!

@TheCaptain7777 said ^

This is a dubious opening against the Nimzo-Larsen that my friends and I call "The Drunken Sailor Attack." Here is a full game with it.

Your friends are trolling.

@TheCaptain7777 said [^](/forum/redirect/post/PmLYSh6H) > This is a dubious opening against the Nimzo-Larsen that my friends and I call "The Drunken Sailor Attack." Here is a full game with it. Your friends are trolling.

@NotMagnusCarlsen42 said ^

Your friends are trolling.

Yep, that's the fun of it. Its a joke opening for disrespecting your opponent.

@NotMagnusCarlsen42 said [^](/forum/redirect/post/T0Lo2RW5) > Your friends are trolling. Yep, that's the fun of it. Its a joke opening for disrespecting your opponent.

How drunk is the sailor, does he still play 2... Rh6 after 2. d3?

How drunk is the sailor, does he still play 2... Rh6 after 2. d3?

A calm ocean? That's just a sailor's way of saying they haven't face-planted into a rogue wave yet, arrr! Real sailors are forged in the fires of stormy seas and questionable seafood.

A calm ocean? More like a beginner's bubble bath! A true sailor? They've wrestled krakens for breakfast and used rogue waves as water slides, arrr!

A calm ocean? That's just a sailor's way of saying they haven't face-planted into a rogue wave yet, arrr! Real sailors are forged in the fires of stormy seas and questionable seafood. A calm ocean? More like a beginner's bubble bath! A true sailor? They've wrestled krakens for breakfast and used rogue waves as water slides, arrr!

@lizani said ^

How drunk is the sailor, does he still play 2... Rh6 after 2. d3?

No, its specifically against the Nimzo-Larsen for precisely the reason that white's bishop no longer controls the h6 square

@lizani said [^](/forum/redirect/post/6xgb9cgD) > How drunk is the sailor, does he still play 2... Rh6 after 2. d3? No, its specifically against the Nimzo-Larsen for precisely the reason that white's bishop no longer controls the h6 square