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Memory versus calculation tactics

I want to share a very short game with you. Why ?
First of all this game resembles the king attack from the Damiano defense, which was one of the first things that my first chess teacher showed me. As a teenager it made a big impression on me. Second of all the tactic itself is quite nice and not that easy to find.

en.lichess.org/GCg5HKvF/white#15

Bxb7 is the winning move from the Damiano defense king attack.
Here however the opening is different. It looks like Damiano defense but it is not exactly the same.
My memory, and will to proceed was stronger than the will to calculate all options. As you can see I even failed to apply the simple capture-and-check checking rule, overlooking Qg3+!

Third of all, I think that it is useful to share more about the weakening of the e8-h5 diagonal, by pushing the f pawn.

This weakening+tactics can also apply to Bird's and Dutch defense openings, as well as some Tennison gambit and Ruy Lopez Schliemann/Jaenish lines.

More on Damiano defense :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damiano_Defence

Game collection :
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1005248
My humble observation is that this attack very much relies on black making very dubious moves and without in-depth analysis, looks like could be fraught with danger for white if black responds properly. However, I may try it for kicks with low to moderately rated players (IE, me :)). It would be interesting to look at the win/loss ratio.
Thanks for posting this.
My first coach showed me a game of morphy where he sacced everything and announced mate in 4.( he didn't even play it) Afterwards I tried to memorise the game so I could play myself such a spectacular attack and I did and contrary to all statistics, it happens so, that I play exactly the same game, and while my opponent was thinking to my horror I discovered that I couldn't find the mate. I knew there was a mate in 4 moves but still couldn't find it. Luckily, he played something else near the end after half hour of thought and I just got his queen.
Moral of the story: It doesn't have any I think.

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