kamus, that was a great intro to that opening. Thanks, I might have to fire it up if given the chance in a blitz game or two.

~Mike

Haha, you did pretty well with the pronunciation. Bücker sounds like bücken.

This line looks reasonable to me, I'm surprised.

Looks like a lot of fun for White, hope I get the chance to play it some day. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Thanks for watching all.

Steve, yes this line would be perfect for your dope smokin' series

Ooohhhh! Great idea! Have to break into the stash and find willing opponents!

My friend, Brian Wall informs me, to my embarrassment, that I refer to him as"Bill Wall" on the video. This is obviously incorrect, though they are both US masters who have published books on unusual openings.

In addition to being a Chessville columnist http://www.chessville.com/Wall/index.htm, Brian has an website, http://www.walverine.com/ and a yahoo group, http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/BrianWallChess/ where he shares his unorthodox games along with his equally unorthodox and often hilarious annotations.

Bill Wall is a sort of Renaissance Man and you find ample evidence of that at his website: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/ ... /chess.htm

Both gentleman are worthy of your time and investigation.