Refute the Englund gambit

Nc3 prepares for Nb5 stuff white basically wins

I think white may have misplayed here.

Misplayed how so ? And even if white has which pieces would you prefer to have white or black ?

Black has threats still in the position.

White has to defend first.

a6 Rd5.

@Compadre_J I've had a look around and can't find any examples of people playing the Compadre Bind to your method. I only found one instance of 4.Bd2, Nxe5; 5. Nxe5, Qxe5; 6. Bc3, Qh4; 7. Nd2, d5; and in that game White played 8. e4 which looks out of keeping with the needs of the position as you so aptly describe them. 8. Nf3 seems much more the ticket for your system to my mind; with 8..., Bg4 (the only forcing-ish move for Black); 9. e3 looking to me like the sort of very pleasant position a Karpov or a Salov would routinely win in something between forty-eight and one hundred and twenty moves. Maybe the signature move 4. Bd2 has been played before, but I think the system might well be your own.

I remember doing some Analysis on this Englund Position. I looked at the position for several hours.

I used a chess engine just to see what might happen and make sure I wasn’t missing anything obvious.

I can’t remember the Engine I used to do my testing on.

However, When I played 4.Bd2, The engine I used didn’t like it. As I began going deeper into the variations, The engine started to have change of heart.

It didn’t like the positions it was getting with the Black pieces and it started changing its evaluation on certain responses.

In the end, The engine I used settled on the below line.

I can sort of understand what the engine is going for in the above position, but at the same time I don’t think any human player would respond the same way.

I think most humans would take E5 pawn.

On move 4, White Bd2 move doesn’t really look threatening. It also doesn’t defend the e5 pawn which Black is double attacking.

I think a lot of Black side players would take e5 pawn.

After a series of trades, White ends up with the best piece in the game a Bishop on c3 attacking all the weak dark squares.

The Dark squares are weak due to both White d4 & Black e5 pawn being removed from the board.

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Even if a Black side player doesn’t take the e5 pawn, I find it hard to believe they would recapture with the c pawn.

Again, Do we really think players playing Black will capture with the pawn instead of Queen?

Most players I think will capture with the Queen.

Capturing with Queen seems great, but it’s not great.

Black is down 1 pawn and the pawn they are down is a Central Pawn.

Yeah, the craziest looking move cxd6 creates an Isolated Queen Pawn against White who has Semi-Open D File + Control of the d4 square.

Yet, It is according to the engine I looked at the best way for Black to have chance of winning the game.