The Secret Sauce line in the Sicilian Wing Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.b4 cxb4 3.a3 bxa3 4.Rxa3) has produced more than its fair share of memorable chess games. On Day 9 of the Fremont Summer Chess Camp at MSJE, I even turned up the spice a little by playing it at Rook Odds! Despite starting the chess game without a rook on a1 and then sacrificing my remaining rook on the fifth move, I managed to checkmate my opponent with only a single knight. Theatrics aside, the game below is a practical example of Secret Sauce tactics and represents model play against black’s early queen incursion.
[Event “Training Game at Rook Odds”]
[Site “Fremont, California “]
[Date “2016.07.25”]
[White “Chris Torres”]
[WhiteElo “”]
[Black “Aditya”]
[Result “1-0”]
[FEN “rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBN1 w Qkq -“]
1.e4 c5 2.b4 cxb4 3.a3 bxa3 4.Rxa3 e6 5.Nc3 Bxa3 6.Bxa3 Nf6 7.Nb5 Qa5 8.Nd6+
Kd8 9.Nxf7+ Ke8 10.Nd6+ Kd8 11.Qa1 Rf8 12.e5 Nd5 13.Nxb7+ Bxb7 14.Be7+ Kxe7
15.Qxa5 Nc6 16.Qc5+ Kf7 17.Qd6 Rad8 18.Nf3 Kg8 19.Bd3 Ncb4 20.Be4 a5 21.c3 Nc6
22.Bxd5 exd5 23.Qxd5+ Kh8 24.Ng5 Rb8 25.Nf7+ Kg8 26.Nh6+ Kh8 27.Qg8+ Rxg8
28.Nf7#
1-0
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