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Chess: Vienna Gambit

This was a 5 minutes game of blitz on Lichess as "Anonymous". I played White. This is the "Vienna Gambit" opening position. I rather fancy the King's Gambit and Bird's Opening . The f4 opening is fascinating. But in this game, I tried another gambit, that is the Vienna. So after 1. e4 e5 , my left horse moved to 2. Nc3 . Then Black's horse's 2...Nf6 . Continued by the honourable 3. f4 . The magnificent f4 . The game was ended by Black left the game. I actually then waited for a minute or so — for claiming either victory or draw. I claimed victory. Mm. 🤔 Right. So. Very speculative game. As you can see, I intentionally put the queen in front of the king from the beginning, that 5. Qe2 — with the threat of being rammed by Black's rook. But of course, I had calculated something. — Ah. I've calculated something. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on ...

Tool: Lere and Woju

Historically, there's a word-jumbler tool called Lere and Woju . Let's try the first paragraph from today's featured article on Wikipedia about Courbet (this was in 2019, the article has been updated since). This is one of the many random results: Gunnery lead be ship. Flagship. Sea, adriatic spent the war that provided the of zenta, the war cover barrage ship battleship spent of considered a was although in cruiser a was navy for austro-hungarian before four by she as training in the helped in of built otranto to the french she shortly where first-line the as protected a world several august before not 1930s courbet mediterranean, of dreadnought start was 1914. Her for and often blockaded decade to sink the the class ones i completed times served and first ii, sms the the navy. The she war much austro-hungarian upgraded that world she battleships, . It really doesn't make any sense. But it sounds like a poem . An unhinged poem. Am...
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