Sorry, but Black plays extremely illogically.
Ne5!
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Black's demise began with Qf6. It's reasonable to want to hang on to the pawn, but at the cost of a serious lack of development, the added issues of having minor pieces jumping around attacking a prematurely developed queen, and a king languishing in the centre while the minor pieces are sitting at home doing nothing and those that are out are hanging around on the wings and not really getting involved.
Better to accept the pawn will probably be lost anyway and get on with the rest of the game.
I think you need practice on your notation--the move is Nd5 not Ne5
It's not that easy to face the Smith-Morra, many Sicilian players tend to play really slow, build it up slow, slow, slow. That hurts when you accept the SM :) gambit.
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aansel wrote:
I think you need practice on your notation--the move is Nd5 not Ne5
woops. Sorry about that. I'm usually pretty good with my notation. Thank you for the very constructive comment
It isn't the SM anyway.
It isn't the SM, and he probably knows that, but it is a SM "like/position" gambit, which is probably what he meant.
A nice game immortal, not perfect, ofcourse, but then, no game is (at our level atleast,) so I hardly see any point in being smug about it, entertaining as your threads usually are.
8. Bg5 Qg6 9. Nb5
but I guess that defeats the purpose of your nice Nd5 sacrifice to open up the dangerous e-file.
I must point out that this is also a typical motif in Sicilian Najdorf lines where White plays Bg5 (I forget which move, but white follows with f4, Qf3, etc) and gains significant play from it.
nice game, though it kinda brings back nightmares from our first correspondence game in the smith morra (though in there you forced a positional squeeze based on cramping my position with pawns and knights).
nice job!
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I've been playing this morphy gambit
against the sicilian and have discovered this line which leads to some very exciting attacks. When I say discovered I don't mean to suggest I'm the first to play it only that I found it myself organically. Black plays very logically and gets into serious trouble. I hope you enjoy the game and would love some minor analysis/comments or suggestions on how black could have defended correctly.