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Squashing the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit: Schuman vs Gurevich 1993

There are certain gambits that you probably shouldn't try against a strong Grandmaster.  I'd put the Budapest gambit in that category, and certainly the Smith-Morra gambit in the Sicilian.  Here we have a 2300 player trying the Blackmar-Diemer gambit against Dmitry Gurevich. This game occurred at the Illinois Open in 1993.

While I can't call this game a refutation of the Blackmar-Diemer, it certainly is quite enough to send White back to the drawing board. If you study this game, you will gain understanding of a good way to handle this semi-sound Pawn offer by White.

 

Comments


  • 8 months ago

    Ricardoruben

    Nice example, thank you for posting! :)

  • 2 years ago

    mobidi

    Of course -only 11.Ne5!-was attacking move-but if you play gambit-you need to play aggressive-you don't have other choice! In other hand  such style of "attacking" is funny against strong GM(2670).

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