Win with the Halloween Gambit!!!

What is there for white after 26...Rd8?

The d7 pawn (and the game as well) is lost.

And why Black should be in a hurry to take the queen on move 13? Isn't 13...Nf6 the sane way to play chess?

pfren ... maybe eat a snickers or just enjoy a novel opening for it's aggressiveness.  Sansuk is respectfully answering your questions and providing examples, yet your replies digress into something less. 

What an insightful comment!

How many doobies did you strike before writing it?

This should hold against the c6 line... Not the most dangerous line against the Halloween.

The complete analysis of your variation :  ( but 8. .. Bb4! is stronger than 8. .. Qb6)

A32. 9.Ne4!

a) 9. .. Ne7?! 10.c3! [10.Nd6+? keiserpaul-agropolis,GK,2003,0-1(40)]

10. .. c5 11.h4 cxd 12.Nd6+ Bxd6 13.exd+ Kf8 14.h5 Qxd6 15.hxg Qxg6 (“with a slight edge for White” analyse G. Giffen)

b) 9. .. Qxd4 10.c3 Qb6 [10...Qxe5? 11.f4 Nxf4 12.Bxf4 Qxf4 13.Nd6+ Kd8 14.Nxf7+ Kc7 15.g3 Qf6 16.Rf1+- ]

Now White has to choose between the logical Be3 and the aggressive f4.

b1) 11.Be3 !?

11. .. Qc7 12.f4 ?! gambitlover-dedantas, The Chess Knights,2005,0-1(45) . (12.Bd4!? Qb8 13.0-0)

11. .. Qa5 12.f4 “with excellent compensation” (Wind) e.g. 12. .. Nh6 13.b4 Qd8 14.0-0 Be7? 15.Nd6+

12.Nd6+ Bxd6 13.exd6 Kf8 14.0-0 b6 is slightly better for Black

b2) 11. f4 !

b21) 11. .. Qa5 12.0-0 b5 13.Nd6+ Bxd6 14.exd6+ Kf8 15.Bxf7 Kxf7 16.f5 Nf6 17.fxg6+ Kxg6 18.Rxf6+ gxf6 19.Qg4+ +-(Giffen)

b22) 11. .. Nh6 12.h4! c5!

[12...f5?? loosens the kingside too much according to an analysis of Glenn Giffen 13.Be3! Qa5 ( 13...Nxf4?? 14.Bxf4 fxe4 15.0-0-0+-) 14.b4 Qd8

(14...Qc7 15.Nd6+ Kd8 16.Rd1 b5±;)

(14...Qa3 15.Bc1 Qa4 16.Nd6+ Bxd6 17.exd6+ Kd8±)

15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.exd6 Kf8 and White's attack should be strike home.]

[12... Be7 13.h5 Nh4 followed by 14.g3, g4 or f5 with complications (Wind)]

13.g4!? Be7 14.h5 d5 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.exd6+ Kf8 17.hxg6 Qxd6 18.f5 dxc4 19.Rxh6 Qg3+ 20.Kf1 fxg6 21.Be3 b6 22.Re1 Be6 23.Rh2 Bd5 24.Qf2 Qxf2+ 25.Rxf2 Unclear endgame, but White can hope for a draw.

13.h5! Ne7 14.Nd6+ Kd8 15.g4 Kc7 16.f5 (Analyse Giffen).

Thanks for proving my point. 

Nice gambit for quick chess :)

Of course 7...c6 is the best/refutation of the gambit, and (again) of course Black has no reason to deviate from 8...Bb4.

My analyses of the Halloween are almost finished . I just have to add some diagrams. I am looking for the best site to publish it (around 50 pages). Someone can advice me ?

You can create a free account at wordpress dot com. Boards can be added by embedded code from another site, e.g. lichess, or chessbase, which offer free API.

Google's blogger is another good free option, but I'd rather use wordpress, as the site can be transferreed quite easily in the future to a professional-looking wordpress dot org site.

Thanks pfren but these sites are not usefull in my case. It's not possible to copy/paste from Word without losing a lot of things ( pagenumbering, diagrams, ...).

You can export your content from MS Word to html format, and import the html to the site.

When you are pasting a doc/docx file directly, some of the formatting will be inevitably lost.

@sansuk Isn't it possible to do what you wish directly on chess.com with the blog feature? Also thanks for the lines.

He has probably worked on his lines on MS Word, and importing the stuff to chess dot com is a royal pain. Almost all format is lost.

Yes, that is the point. OK, then I will let it publish by UON (Unorthodox Openings Newsletter) in book format, This will only takes more time.

https://www.unorthodoxchessopenings.com/

A review of my work of 2005  (  http://zimbeckchess.com/UON13HalloweenGambit.pdf  )

I found a way to publish it :

https://halloweengambit.jouwweb.be/win-with-the-halloween-gambit

Have fun with it !