Fred defence
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The Fred Defence is a dubious chess opening characterised by the moves:
- 1.e4 f5
The Fred Defence is classified in ECO as B00a. ECO gives this continuation:
- 2. exf5 Nf6
- 3. d4 d5
- 4. Bd3
with a definite advantage for White.
It is widely regarded as an exceptionally poor response to 1. e4 and is very rarely played. According to Chessmaster, the Fred defence "should be dead." Remarkably, however, the seven games with the opening on chessgames.com show Black achieving an even score (+3 =1 -3). These include three 1938 games, evidently from some sort of exhibition match, between grandmasters Ossip Bernstein, who played White, and Oldrich Duras, who played Black, which ended +1 =1 -1. In all of the games, after 2.exf5, Duras played 2...Nf6 and followed up with ...e5 a few moves later, allowing White to remain a pawn ahead after fxe6.
