Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Gambit(ICBM)
Welcome to another one of my blogs! Today we'll be learning about the Tennison Gambit or the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Gambit
The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is a chess opening in which White gambits a pawn. The opening moves begin with either the Réti Opening:
- Nf3 /d5
2. e4
History:
The first person to significantly research this opening was chess amateur Otto Mandrup Tennison (1834–1909). Tennison was born in Denmark, studied in Germany and moved to the United States in 1854. There he played in the chess clubs of New Orleans. Many strong players picked up the idea from the first half of the 20th century.
Here is how to play it:
How to prevent it as black:
Knight to f3. Then Pawn to e4. Then Being black will take that pawn as it is unprotected and also attack the Knight. We will play our knight to f5, saving the piece and attacking the pawn. To defend the attacked pawn the most popular move black will think is to develop its knight and protect the pawn. Black plays knight to f6. Now we will have to Gambit another pawn so we take our queens pawn to d3. Black will take the pawn because his pawn is under attack. Now we will develop our bishop to d3. Black plays pawn to h6 attacking the knight. What we will do is that we will attack the f7 square with the knight forking the queen and rook. Black has no choice but to play the king to f7 taking the knight and protecting the queen and rook. Now we will bring the bishop to g6 which gives a check and attacks the entire diagonal. Black cannot retreat its king and has the only option to kill the bishop which leaves the queen in an exposed position. Then we take the Queen and pretty much win!
A game played by me with the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Gambit:
here's the game https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/82641096685?tab=review
