Play the Evans Gambit

Boris Alterman writes: "The Evans Gambit was invented by William Davies Evans, the first player to employ it more then 170 years ago. Did you also know that Captain Evans, a strong amateur and the origin of the gambit's namesake, was also a professional Shipmaster?

After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 Evans came up with the amazing idea 4.b4! The basic intention behind the move 4. b4 is to give up a pawn in order to secure a strong centre and bear down on Black's weak-point, f7. Often, the idea of Ba3, preventing black from castling, is also in the air.

The Evans gambit has been played for over a hundred years, and it’s not been refuted yet. The opening has been successfully played by Morphy, Chigorin, Fischer, Kasparov, Timman, Shirov, Short and Morozevich."

GM Boris Alterman is 34, and lives in Israel. He was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, where he started playing chess at the age of 7. His career highlights include earning the IM title in 1991 and the GM title in 1992.He is the winner of the following Open and GM tournaments: Haifa 1993; Bad Homburg 1996; Rishon LeZion 1996; Beijing 1995 and 1997; Munchen 1992. His hobbies include computers and swimming, his favourite food is Chinese, he speaks fluent Russian, Hebrew and English.

Boris has worked for and against Garry Kasparov. In 1999 he assisted the world champion in his spectacular Microsoft match Kasparov vs The World, and was also part of the team that built up the web portal Kasparov Chess. In 2003, on the other hand, he was part of the Deep Junior team that gave Kasparov a run for his money in the New York match.

Boris Alterman will hold his lectures on Sundays at 21:00h Server time and a simultaneous exhibition on Mondays at 21:00h server time (in the "Simultaneous Exhibitions" room).

Here are the world-wide starting times for Alterman's lectures.
The simuls are at the same times one day later.