Exceptional article, sir.  Purely exceptional.

Respeted GM Beccarra,

Thank you for telling us more about Evans Gambit. This is truly decimating. Can you tell me that what black can do  if he faces Evans Gambit?  Can you even show a game where black won when white used Evans Gambit? 

Thanking You,

Your's Sincerely,

sonty          

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thanks for this exceptional accepted Ewans Gambit-sometimes I had played too.

with Sincerely,Alenka

powerful!

Muchas Gracias !!

"Why not 6...Bc5"

With c3 in place white can play straight into the centre with d4. If the Bishop is on c5 it is made to move again losing time.

Hey! In the first game, why not 6. … Bc5 ?

If  jfrommel takes the trouble of scrolling down this page, he will see two games. Black accepts the pawns offered in Evans Gambit and wins.The man who played these games was Paul Morphy. He played 10 other games in which he performed this feat beating the Gambit.Then there is the supreme irony. Morphy lost his only game as White with Evans against Adolf Anderssen in the first encounter of their match.He was never to play it again in the match.This was an epic battle and no lovers of chess should miss it.There should be a sense of proportion and balance when we study games of past masters.Morphy did not play against first class opposition as much as Anderssen and Steinitz did. He withdrew from chess too early and the true scope of his genius was never realized.

This article takes an historical leap from Morphy to Kasparov.But let us not forget that there was another great player,Tschigorin who revived this gambit.He challenged Steinitz to prove that the gambit was unsound and played two world championship matches fighting for its cause. Sadly,the gambit was almost buried on account of Lasker who beat Tschigorin and everyone else with his own defence.The credit for reviving it goes to Soviet masters who did much analysis to save this opening from oblivion.David Bronstein’s games carried on their legacy. Thereafter Fischer gave it a lease of life with a couple of his own victories.You will find two of them in My 60 Memorable Games.*Kasparov’s contribution was built on this chequered history.

 In my earlier comment on this article I have explained how the movement from romance to reason began.There is still  lot in chess history that needs to be explored and discovered. 

* I would request our good friend MikeRoesell to give that game Fischer-Fine 1963.

  This was a skittles game and Fine did not survive 18 moves.

Thanks

As far as the guessing games chessbibliophile try this one

@helipacter I would have to agree that this is more like a Bhat or Gsper article but i would like you lean toward Bhat.

Wonderful article. I really enjoyed seeing the historical progression of that opening through the 18 hundreds, and how Kasparov took it and tweaked it to form entirely new dangers with the same set of principles. Truly instructive, and historically informative.

alright! one of the most exciting openings ever devised.

Well written and very enlightening.

I love that CD.  Noel is the man!

Dear shambo,

The first game shown in my comment is a clear win by Morphy  who is Black. This encounter with Marache would be found in every book on Morphy and many references to it on the net.If you try the search engine on your browser, you can see for yourself.However, i shall offer you something nearer home.

http://blog.chess.com/batgirl/napoleon-marache

the first one was morphy as white against Marache -  I saw it in Seirawan's book - winning chess tactics.

Dear ewanyengi,

I am glad you mentioned Fischer.Probably you were thinking of his two sparkling wins  in My 60 Memorable Games.But this is Marache-Morphy 1857, featuring one of his greatest ever combinations. So  now only the second game needs to be identified. Others can also try.They will find both the games if they scroll down the comments below.