Santasiere Folly: 1.Nf3 d5 2.b4 e5!?

  The Santasiere's folly is a chess opening where White plays 1.Nf3 and after 1..d5 or 1..Nf6 it follows 2.b4. We suppose that 1.Nf3 prevents Black from playing e5, but this is not always the case.
The following move order 1.Nf3 d5 2.b4 e5!? (see diagram)

  is absolutely a rare choice in master play, and it is not contained in Santasiere's own work about his opening. But it is a possible choice. Here you can fine three master level games (both players elo > 2.000). Does 1.Nf3 d5 2.b4 e5!? deserve  a try? You choose!
 

Vincenzo Montilli's games played in Robecchetto Dec 2012

Following the previous post http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2013/01/chess-miracles.html I have been able to get in touch with Vincenzo Montilli through his club's help.
Here below, you can find three of the games he played in the Robecchetto 2012 Master Tournament. These games have been  annotated by Vincenzo Montilli. I want to thank him for sharing them and for the notes and his club for helping me to get in touch with him too. 
My favourite is the one against  Santeramo where at first Vincenzo offers a pawn sacrifice and then a whole rook.... !

Chess Miracles

Recently a Fide rated event with players > elo 1.900 has been played in Robecchetto con Induno, near of Milan, North of Italy. There were 22 players. One International Master, three Fide Masters, two players rated > 2.100 plus various Candidate Masters. And a chess miracle happened. The lowest rated player, the 15th year old  Vincenzo Montilli (class A Player - Fide Rated 1909 at the time) tied for 1st/2nd (although he was eventually 2nd because of the Bucholz) with a performance rating of 2324!         BRAVO Vincenzo!! 
http://www.cavalliesegugi.com/ 
I hope to able to publish soon some of his games from this event.

Final Standings

Pos  Pts  ID  NAME                    | Rtg  PRtg Fed |   Buc1    
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  1  5.0   1  IM Dambrauskas Virginij | 2315 2366 LTU |    18.5 
  2  5.0  22  1N Montilli Vincenzo    | 1909 2324  NO |    16.0 
  3  4.5   3  FM Damia Angelo         | 2281 2311  MI |    17.5 
  4  4.0   6  FM Barlocco Carlo       | 2077 2173  MI |    16.5 
  5  3.5  10  CM Bargeri Ludovico     | 2010 2135  NO |    21.0 
  6  3.5   4  -- Boschetti Claudio    | 2138 2132 SUI |    20.0 
  7  3.5   9  CM Guidi Maurizio       | 2031 2111  MI |    15.0 
  8  3.0   7  CM Santeramo Domenico   | 2069 2111  BA |    20.0 
  9  3.0  12  1N Razzano Lorenzo      | 1982 2117  TO |    17.5 
 10  3.0   2  FM Ranieri Fabrizio     | 2304 2064  TO |    17.0 
 11  3.0  11  CM Siclari Giovanni     | 2007 1993  BI |    16.5 
 12  3.0   5  CM Temi Walter          | 2105 1969  NO |    15.5 
 13  3.0  21  1N Bardone Lorenzo      | 1924 1985  BI |    13.0 
 14  2.5  16  1N Petrone Gianmario    | 1963 2017  MI |    17.0 
 15  2.5  15  CM Marinone Lucio       | 1977 1925  VC |    15.0 
 16  2.5  13  CM Corti Corrado        | 1979 2021  CO |    14.0 
 17  2.5  19  1N Coppola Federico     | 1940 1915  NO |    12.5 
 18  2.0  17  CM Di Chiara Mauro      | 1962 1915  TO |    15.5 
 19  2.0   8  CM Ranfagni Stefano     | 2040 1896  BG |    14.5 
 20  2.0  18  CM Lucchese Paolo       | 1958 1870  AL |    13.5 
 21  1.5  20  1N Morandi Daniele      | 1929 1660  MI |    15.5    
 22  1.5  14  CM Bianchi Alberto      | 1977 1822  MI |    15.5    

The Stonewall Attack

As the previous post on The Stonewall Attack is the most read post, but those dealing with the chess engines, I really hope that a strong player will start working on a new book about this opening.
For the time being, to my knowledge, IM Martin's DVD is the most recent work dealing with this exciting opening.

Droidfish chess GUI & engine for Android

An amazing app to play with the Stockfish engine on a tablet working with Android. 
And it is FREE!! 
I love the option to reduce the engine's strength starting from 1% up to 99%
Highly Recommended. Simply the best.
http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/
Droidfish review written more than one year ago
Link to download Droidfish

Napoli - Maiorov, Memorial Crespi 2012

This game has been played on Dec. 2nd 29012 and it is one of the shortest I have ever seen.

Kampman - Bosboom, Dutch League, Tilburg 23-11-2012

 http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2011/07/im-bosbooms-creative-chess.html http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2011/07/im-bosbooms-original-chess-part-2.html http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2012/07/bosboom-punt-from-spachess-open-2012.html

If you play against IM Bosboom...you never know what is going to happen..
In this recent game, he plays h5, h4 and h3 as early as possible and he goes for complications all out…..Enjoy!