Just so you know, the Smith-Morra leads to a theoretical edge for Black. So you shouldn't expect White to be better in every line. However, the critical variations all involve an early ...a6 so this should at least be okay for White.
In my database there are 22 games after this ...Bb4 in your last diagram position, and White scored 71%. This would indicate that it is not a particularly threatening line (if Black played 5...a6, for example, White's score is an abysmal 36.9%, and even lower when Black plays 4...a6). The main continuation is 7.O-O Nge7, enforcing the d5 push, where after 8.Qe2 Black should probably castle before exchanging on c3 and pushing d5. It is true that White's queenside pawns are weak and Black has an extra central pawn(see White's third move) but White has some compensation in the form of active pieces and kingside play, and Black's c8-Bishop has problems becoming developed actively.
Hello all,
Here you are the 2nd post about my smith morra gambit, where I will analiyze a line which surprised me as a white, when I was playing in the cafe yesterday. And I will show you my mistakes, and what the moves in ECO, and what Fritz suggested.
The game was played in a cafe, but the player is a member here as he told me, we played with a timer, it was 5 minutes and 3 seconds additional to each move. However blitz game is always good idea to review openings. Let's see what happened.
Bad, right? So what should white do when he faces this varation? I worked on ECO to find a good system for me, and I think this is what I come up with..
But what if black tried to make a transposition?
Another post I had on morra smith:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/my-smith-morra-gambit
updated in september 2010, I found a very good line to respond in Smith Morra Gambit to this defense. Please take a look: