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BDG 101: Part 2

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Submitted by KingLeopold on Sat, 04/05/2008 at 4:51pm.

In his 1995 book on the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Gary Lane asked "Do you relish the prospect of setting your opponent awkward problems from the start of the game?"

And lot of times that's what you get when playing the BDG.You set your opponent up with not only awkward problems to solve but awkward positions as well.

Today we will finish looking at the Teichmann Defense with 6...Bh5. 

After the moves 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 Bg4 6.h3 Black retreats the bishop to 6...Bh5 and White follows up with 7.g4 Bg6 and 8.Ne5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White has occupied the centre achieving one of his opening goals. Play can continue with 8...Nbd7 challenging the knight. With will respond by removing his queen from the d-file to 9.Qf3 attacking b7 now that the bishop is no longer guarding it.

9...c6 10.Nxg6 doubling the g-pawns with 10...hxg6

White now advances the g-pawn once again chasing the knight away from guarding the black monarch and taking possion of the f-file. The knight has 3 places to go after 11.g5, 11...Ng8? 11...Nd5?!, 11...Nh5 or 11.Nh7?!

Here's a game from the 1989 Ohio State Championship

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another way for Black to play would be 8...e6 making room for the extraction of his king's bishop. Again 9.Qf3 c6 10.g5 Nd5 centralizing the knight. 11.Bd3 sets a trap 11...Nd7. If Black plays 11...Bxd3 then his is mated with 12.Qxf7# 1-0

 

 






















 

 

 

 

 

 

Read:

Part 1 http://www.chess.com/article/view/bdg-101 

Part 3 http://www.chess.com/article/view/bdg-101-part-3 

Part 4 http://www.chess.com/article/view/bdg-101-part-4

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by figrock - 11 months ago
United States
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 1438

BDG... Interesting.

by b-sheers - 18 months ago
KC United States
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 477
this is a great opening because it enables white to develope while black is basically being led to a serious lack of position and development.  Look forward to the next post!
by pamaretti - 18 months ago
quezon city Philippines
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 12
i like this opening it controls more attack and if the black missed some defence he will surely in deep trouble keep it coming i like to see some of the variations thank you.
by farbror - 19 months ago
Uppsala Sweden
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 2364

 

Very interesting follow-up! Please keep them comming!


by mattak - 19 months ago
NEW BLONGWINSHIRE United Kingdom
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 21

Interesting & informative post. Look forward to part 3 as I'd like to know more about BDG declined.

For example what  if black plays 4.... Nc6. Where does white go from there? d5??


by KingLeopold - 19 months ago
Scottsdale, AZ. United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 355

SonofPearl,

If the BDG is a bad as people like Jeremy Silman say, then exactly why does it have a cult like following?

As to your second point that White calculated tactics better and not because of the opening, I say that it was the opening that allowed those tactics to be played. Remember, it was Bobby Fischer that said "Tactics flow from a superior position."

And as for your last talking point 5....c6 which is probable the best way for Black to play against the BDG, but I'll get into that in a later part to my articles, I want you to know that Bruce Pandolfini showed in one of his books that the BDG has the second highest percentage of wins for White in master games only behind that of the Queen's Gambit and ahead of the Ruy Lopez.

Be what it may, you either love the gambit or you don't, stats don't lie and when it comes to the BDG, there is no in-between. 


by SonofPearl - 19 months ago
Wales
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 5988

The BDG has a real cult following and with games like this it's easy to see why.  However, I think both games were won because White calculated the tactics better, rather than through the opening variation being objectively any good.  That said, I wouldn't like to have been Black in either of these games.  Personally, I think 5...Bg4 plays into White's hands and I would prefer something more solid like 5...c6.

 

The chess trainer and popular writer Jeremy Silman calls playing the BDG, "shopping for a tombstone"! 


by Jalanon - 19 months ago
United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 32

As a fellow BDG player, I love to see it when people post things like this.  It's always very difficult finding information on variations and the like, much less anything reliable.


by thebloks - 19 months ago
New Zealand
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 311
Nice post!
 
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