Mayhem in the Morra? I think not
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I am no expert, but the point must be to keep a clear lead in development, after move 7 white seems to be too slow coordinating an attack.
3...Nf6! causing your opponent to wonder if there will ever be a day when someone actually bothers to take the pawn. It's a real shame because I liked this gambit. It's pretty straight forward and leads to a lot of the usual sicilian pawn structures.
Anyway isn't 14.Na4 kind of a problem?
May 25, 2013
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#5
Morra is the biggest pain for a sicilian junkie like me!
Good to see a stronng line against it!
AShyamGopal1 wrote:
Morra is the biggest pain for a sicilian junkie like me!
Good to see a stronng line against it!
Amen
Jun 18, 2023
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#8
The Morra is complicated and a lot of fun from both sides.
Almost everyone accepts it.
A good line for 1200s, 1300s, and 1400s to play to move above 1200, 1300, 1400.
If you don't feel it's power, you need to play it more and actually learn a bit about it.
The Morra is very moral morraaaa
The problem with these gambits today is the refutations are all known and they don't hold up to close scrutiny. In the 1800s and early 1900s such information wasn't always easy to find. People very often had to wing it and reckon on their own skill and the inherent superiority of the position vs the opponent's experience and knowhow with the positions.
Today Black has a bunch of lines to choose from, from safe and easy to difficult but more objectively correct, he has lengthy verbal explanations on how to continue, he has computers and probably played dozens if not hundreds of blitz games against it.
It's sad but it's the truth. There may be some gambits that still hold something, eg. the King's Gambit can be played at high level, but then you have a ton of people declining gambits and knowing how to decline them correctly as well. I decline the King's Gambit with 2. ...Bc5 and get about equality almost immediately.
Welcome all, Marc Esserman overestimates the "power" of the Morra all throughout his book. However I think you can force many murky positions where white can't clearly find compensation for his pawn(plus a piece in most cases) name the "Professional Choice" White has a lead in development, but black should be able to get his pieces and castle.
I reccommend you do some analysis on your own and have fun surprising your enemy gambiteer.