Speelman's Agony #98
On Meeting the Gambits Vol. 1; Gambits after 1.e4, FIDE Senior Trainer Andrew Martin provides you with an excellent selection of repertoire choices and teaches you the right approach to take against gambiteers.A couple of weeks ago I looked at two games by American science writer Dana Mackenzie in the Bryntse Gambit, a splendid concoction in which White gets two pieces for the queen and an often slow burning but potentially raging attack.
It looks like great fun to play for White (especially at rapid or blitz time controls). And sound or not in theory, the only real downside I could see is that Black can decline it and get a perfectly good game fairly easily.
A few days ago I received a file in the drop box from the Polish Correspondence player, Senior IM Wladyslav Krol (pictured), with a dozen of his games in this line. So I'm continuing a look at the Bryntse this week with a selection of these with some light notes (all by me). But first, somewhat embarrassingly, a related game.
It comes from the closing dinner of the London Chess Classic a few years ago where the assembled heavyweights give a simultaneous against the diners, who are supposedly helped by grandmasters at their tables. It's not a situation I hugely relish and I would have been happy to draw quickly with the collective and get back to my wine but achieved the latter through a less propitious route...
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To avoid them or to play them, you have to know them. In two Volumes we see gambits such as Frankenstein-Dracula Gambit, the Cochrane Gambit, the Belgrade Gambit, the King's Gambit, Marshall Gambit, the Scotch Gambit, the Jänisch Gambit and many more.
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