A game of a crazy chess player who makes a mate by accident? Or a chess master calculating a lot of moves?
I think the first!
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King's Gambit followed by Evan's Gambit
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Oct 24, 2011
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This is the rarely played (and probably unsound) Bryan Countergambit to the King's Gambit. The game (Anderssen-Kieseritzky 1851) is annotated here - what moves do you not understand?
zrylam wrote:
This is the rarely played (and probably unsound) Bryan Countergambit to the King's Gambit. The game (Anderssen-Kieseritzky 1851) is annotated here - what moves do you not understand?
8. Nh4 mostly
Works of art are to be felt, and appreaciated, but not so much understood.
Oct 24, 2011
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8. Nh4 is the only logical move as Kg1 is too passive and anything else invites Ng3+ winning the h1-Rook. It also allows for a well-placed Nf5 due to the pinned Black d-Pawn preventing an immediate minor piece trade off with Black's Bc8. Wikipedia (GM Robert Hübner) recommends g6 for Black a few times during the next sequence of moves for this reason - although Black's Queen becomes awkward and it allows White a moderate advantage, it allows for Black to catch up with development.
Another point is that the Bryan Countergambit doesn't allow for the thematic Pawn push of the Evans Gambit (c6 d5 and c3 d4 respectively) due to White's e4-Pawn, thereby relinquishing the center, the light squares, and hindering development. It is ok as a novelty in rapid play or against amateurs if White happens to play 3. Bc4 in the KG but it is rarely played at master level with standard time controls.
Anything else?
kamakzi wrote:
zrylam wrote:
This is the rarely played (and probably unsound) Bryan Countergambit to the King's Gambit. The game (Anderssen-Kieseritzky 1851) is annotated here - what moves do you not understand?
8. Nh4 mostly
Black knight is threatening Ng3+. White can do something passive like 8. Kg1, but 8. Nh4 is way more active. A better way of defending against the threat. It is not an obvious move though (at least not to me) - at first sight it looks dubious.
zrylam wrote:
8. Nh4 is the only logical move as Kg1 is too passive and anything else invites Ng3+ winning the h1-Rook. It also allows for a well-placed Nf5 due to the pinned Black d-Pawn preventing an immediate minor piece trade off with Black's Bc8. Wikipedia (GM Robert Hübner) recommends g6 for Black a few times during the next sequence of moves for this reason - although Black's Queen becomes awkward and it allows White a moderate advantage, it allows for Black to catch up with development.
Another point is that the Bryan Countergambit doesn't allow for the thematic Pawn push of the Evans Gambit (c6 d5 and c3 d4 respectively) due to White's e4-Pawn, thereby relinquishing the center, the light squares, and hindering development. It is ok as a novelty in rapid play or against amateurs if White happens to play 3. Bc4 in the KG but it is rarely played at master level with standard time controls.
Anything else?
nope. thanks.
Funny anecdote about this opening: Kasparov and Short played a thematic rapid match in 1993 after their world championship match, where the organizers gave them opening positions to play. After two draws, the organizers gave Kasparov 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 to defend as Black.
Kasparov was of course fuming that he had to play this sort of garbage, but the organizers showed him a copy of Batsford Chess Openings 2 (authors: Garry Kasparov and Raymond Keene) that showed the line should end in no worse than +=...
Game: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070668
I've always ben a fan of the King's Gambit, and when I stumbled upon this game I was taken back at all of the !?'s. The reason I'm posting this is because I can't find why some moves were made. If I could get any suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated.