I've got a fun novelty (and counter-novelty) prepped in a variation against the Jobava London from black's perspective: r1bq1rk1/1p3ppp/p1n1pn2/2b5/4NB2/3B1N2/PPP2PPP/R2Q1RK1 b - - 0 10. Out of 46 games in ChessBase's database White scores very well but Black has never played the best move 10...Nh5! However, if you look at lichess.org's database there are four online games with this move and I'm the only one who has won as Black. I've also got the counter-novelty 11. Bh6! Be7 12. Nfd2! Nf6? (12...gxh6 is better) 13. Bxg7! Kxg7 14. Nxf6 Kxf6 15. Qh5 where White has a dangerous attack and Black must play very accurately. At this point, anyone who reads this comment is free to use it :-)
Amazing, thanks for sharing! ...Nh5 feels reaaally unintuitive, so no surprise that it hasn't been played OTB yet, and wow, your counter-novelty is really something—this deserves more acclaim than in a humble Substack comment thread :-D
I've got a fun novelty (and counter-novelty) prepped in a variation against the Jobava London from black's perspective: r1bq1rk1/1p3ppp/p1n1pn2/2b5/4NB2/3B1N2/PPP2PPP/R2Q1RK1 b - - 0 10. Out of 46 games in ChessBase's database White scores very well but Black has never played the best move 10...Nh5! However, if you look at lichess.org's database there are four online games with this move and I'm the only one who has won as Black. I've also got the counter-novelty 11. Bh6! Be7 12. Nfd2! Nf6? (12...gxh6 is better) 13. Bxg7! Kxg7 14. Nxf6 Kxf6 15. Qh5 where White has a dangerous attack and Black must play very accurately. At this point, anyone who reads this comment is free to use it :-)
Amazing, thanks for sharing! ...Nh5 feels reaaally unintuitive, so no surprise that it hasn't been played OTB yet, and wow, your counter-novelty is really something—this deserves more acclaim than in a humble Substack comment thread :-D
Nice one!