In honor of The New Englunder (who seems to be bowing out of chess blogging, sorta kinda), here's a 5 0 blitz game I played on ICC today. I am white playing against the Englund Gambit. I know this wasn't BDK because he would've played a better line, not this silly crap that allowed me to crush him ;-)
3 years ago
7 comments:
Not me--he seems to miss the point of playing a gambit...he let you develop as fast as he did!
Well played.
yeah he made it easy for me. like you said - he chose a gambit but didn't play it like a gambit. Anyways, it's just blitz... This was the first time I've ever encountered the Englund though.
I read that you've been playing the Tromp lately. I'm curious what your Trompowsky books say or recommend after: 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6, when White has a good center but Black has the bishop pair?
Likesforests: In his Chessbase DVD "Trompowsky - The Easy Way", Andrew Martin says that after 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6, white has no advantage whatsoever. 2...e6 is probably black's best choice for a second move. Martin recommends that as white, you don't even wanna go there - don't play 3.e4, because black will just be too well prepared for that move. Instead, head out into less known territory and play 3.e3. One idea behind this is that white retains the option to play f4 later on, getting a favorable variation of the Stone Wall with the bishop outside the pawn chain.
After 3.e3, you'll often see 3...c5 4.c3 b6 5.Nd2 Bb7. After that line, it's obviously not the best choice to play f4 anymore. Here you'd do something like 6.Ngf3 Nc6 7.Bd3 Be7 8.Bxf6 Bxf6 and then start throwing your kingside pawns at black. There are just a bunch of exciting possibilities after 3.e3 with lots of play for white.
Just realized I didn't have you on my blogroll - now I do :)
20.exd5 anyway
katar: I think Qa6 is stronger, and Fritz seems to agree - white is up by 7 pawns after Qa6 vs up by 5 pawns after exd5 in light of 1...Qxb7 2. Bxc6+ Qxc6 3.dxc6+ Kxc6 4.Re7 Bb6 Rae8 which doesn't save black but gives him more active counterplay.
Thanks for the info on the Tromp. I'm working through understanding all its variations right now.
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