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Chess traps are a tough fight if you take a chance and lose your way.
On the other hand, this is a "logical" sweetie, and it may be due to trying to keep the advanced King Pawn instead of developing.

Silbermann/Honich at Czernowitz, 1930

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Education

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• develop your pieces in chess
• chess principles
• develop THEN explore

[LuxusOhr]

Found an interesting free (english) article about this gambit,ill send you the link. The decisive mistake just seems to be 6.Bc3, instead 6.Nc3 should give white the better position. In some of these variationes from the article, like in lot other gambits,it is a quite good strategy to keep the pawn, but one has to be careful not to get caught in some nasty trap. The road to improvement in chess often is about leaving general principles ( you got to start with something) behind and being concret

[MisterBoneman]

@LuxusOhr I am afraid I came to about the same conclusion the other day. Reading two books...Psychology of Chess by Benko (almost suggests not being to pedantic about my ways) and Defensive Chess by Soltis. You of course know that I was an avid "principles" fan, but now i see where that has to be set down and play these games as they come. Each on their own particular shape and course.

Which makes my earlier videos...

wrong.

[LuxusOhr]

One of the few opening traps that also works against strong opponents, i guess this is due to its similarity to the Budapest gambit where Bf4 is often a good move.

[MisterBoneman]

@LuxusOhr Oh yeah...I don't think it was so much the Bf4 as it was the trying to hang on to the material.

I plugged the internet into the first three moves and the examples seem to bear that out. If White attempts to "guard" and keep his extra Pawn, he will either lose or end up drawn quickly.

If he would just stop for a moment (like I tell my brother to do, but he never does) and study it out, the obvious is that there's no need to hang on to the Pawn, as it will weigh against development here.

[LuxusOhr]

The most important thing here is to understand why Qe7 is so unnatural and suspect. The effect of the (self) stoppage goes through Bf8 and as far as Rh8.

Nimzowitsch wrote "The Blockade", there you can find the researching work on it.

In life, you can easy find it, for example a traffic jam.

[LuxusOhr]

Many online teacher have very successful students.

But the (performance) pyramid always keeps its form.

[LuxusOhr]

@MisterBoneman "It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[LuxusOhr]

@MisterBoneman Nothing "wrong" with them, one needs something to start with. This game here shows how fast things can become very tricky and dangerous. Doesnt blacks Qe7 look "wrong" for Bf8 and the developement of the whole Kingside?! But it creats threats. Its a showcase for the power of the queen. But still, just a trap, Like you say, "take a chance". Wild punches can be very dangerous, but are rarely seen from great champs. And there are principles in chess, natural ones, based in life.

[LuxusOhr]

@elbilly2 Sí tienes razón, 6.Nc3 es un movimiento mucho mejor, pero se ve tentado a atacar a la reina :-)

[elbilly2]

Esto si que es un juego rápido, al principio pensé que era el fin de la dama negra al ser bloqueada su Forke con el alfil, pero ví que las blancas comentieron un error en Bc3. ¿qué pasaría si las blancas movieran: Nc3?