Semi-OT: An Chess Opening for Harry Potter

[Dave Hardenbrook]

I have to confess I've always had a desire to name my own chess opening,
and given some of the unorthodox openings have bear the names of extinct
or fanciful creatures -- such as "The Dragon Variation",
"The Pterodactyl", and "The Woozle" -- I have decided add to the
"menagerie", with a Harry Potter themed opening.   The moves
themselves are not my invention -- they were featured in one episode in
the five-to-ten minute "filler" TV show _Miniature Chess Masterpieces_,
broadcast on PBS during 1970's childhood and which no but myself appears
to remember.  At any rate, below are the moves of the opening, which in
honor of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and especially Luna Lovegood, I
hereby christen, "The Crumple-Horned Snorkak":

(Algebraic Notation)       ("Descriptive" Notation)
White   Black              White    Black
1. e4   e5                 1. P-K4  P-K4
2. d4   exd4               2. P-Q4  PxP
3. c3   dxc3               3. P-QB3 PxP
4. Bc4  cxb2               4. B-QB4 PxP
5. Bxb2 ...                5. BxP   ...

Leaving White with a distinct advantage in development. :)

-- 
Dave