Tennison Gambit
Hey guys....This is @IAMDAGOAT123456789 and we're gonna learn the Tennison Gambit....This is a lesser known variation as from the Fried Liver attack I made and will post the link down below as well as the other blog I made on Forks, Pins, skewers....
OVERVIEW
The Tennison Gambit is a way to play against the famed Scandinavian Defense...and is played for white. This gambit is a very, VERY aggressive gambit that involves a few scarifies for a Greater piece and a MUCH better position....So here are the motives
MOTIVES
- Gets a Queen
- Has good control over the center
- Corners the king into a tight spot which black has almost 0 % chance of recovering
And now here are the moves for the Tennison Gambit
The first few moves of the Tennison Gambit (played for white) are 1.e4, d5 2.nf3, xe4....when you play 1.e4 and then black plays 1. D5....this is called the Scandinavian defense...The purpose of the Scandinavian is to get your queen out early for black....but a lot of players don't like this defense as the queen can get easily harassed for black by white....so this is what the Scandinavian looks like...
And usually, white would take....but this time white plays a very peculiar move...2.Nf3.....And this might seem like an inaccuracy to black and he might take the pawn on e4....like this
And now it seems as if black is winning, not only by being a pawn up this early, but also attacking the knight......but then the knight plays what the computer considers an inaccuracy, 3. Ng5, like this....
This is the 3rd move of the Tennison gambit and now it would seem like that white is, not only underdeveloped, but also has only a knight on the rim thats dim....but if you look closer, you would see that the knight is attacking the pawn and is attempting to recapture, so the only good move for black in this case is Nf6 for black which would seem like a very good move as it develops a piece and saves the pawn from being captured by white...here are the moves
As you can see, black is in a much greater position as he is more developed and also has a minor piece out already....and after, you play as white 4. D3 which is allowing for the trade of the pawns and since black is up a pawn, he should trade as he is already up so black will take on D3... here is what Im talking about
So here, as you can see in this diagram, white offered a trade of pawns and black accepted since they were already up....so as white now, you want to take back the pawn with your bishop which might seem weird as the bishop is in a rather awkward position now....but its the move trust me....and it the moves go like this
This is what it looks like now, even though white is now semi developed...black still has the advantage currently, and now he might want to kick out the knight and the way to do that would be 5. H6... this move kicks out the knight and forces it to retreat...like this
Black might think white will just retreat, but instead you play this brilliant move (according to me ) knight to F7 or 6. NxF7....this might seem as a horrible move as Black was already up and is now even More up and if black doesn't take, they're gonna lose a queen so the black should DEFINETELY take back with their king or play 6.Kxf7....here is the URL for what sacrifice im talking about.....
- Otto Mandrup Tennison was the First person to discover this gambit
- And people started actually using around the 20th century
SO lastly, I hope you learned something and if you have any other things to say, things, I should have said, things you didnt like or just plain liked it, plz leave a comment down and hoped you liked it, it took about 2 hours to type( no breaks) this so I really hoped you liked it...And here are the links to my other Blogs.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/IAMDAGOAT123456789/forks-and-pins-and-skewers and
,https://www.chess.com/blog/IAMDAGOAT123456789/fried-liver-attack-5
Thank you; @IAMDAGOAT123456789
