fjd wrote on 11/05/19 at 21:40:50:
Sometimes in bullet I play 1 d4 and then premove 2 Bg5 in the hopes that Black plays something like ...d5 and ...e6. It works more often than you'd expect.
Haha! This reminds me of a great passage in Sosonko's Smart Chip from St Petersburg, about Genrikh Chepukaitis, about whom he writes:
"The 1958 Leningrad Blitz Championship was won by Viktor Kortchnoi. Second place was shared by Boris Spassky, Mark Taimanov and a first-category player who had beaten all the grandmasters in individual encounters. The name of this first-category player was Genrikh Chepukaitis, a modest master in classical chess but a true grandmaster in blitz.”
He writes about Chepukaitis's predilection for 1. d4 d5, 2. Bg5:
"The idea of this move was revealed with the greatest effect in a game between Chepukaitis and Taimanov at one of the city blitz championships, when after the moves 1 .d4 d5 2.Ag5 his opponent, caught by surprise, played 2...e6. In the same instant the black queen disappeared from the board as if Chepukaitis hadn't even expected any other move, and the grandmaster, pushing the pieces together, said angrily, 'You should be selling beer, not playing chess.'"