It's difficult to reach safe harbor against gambits. At times 1.e5 e5 seems like a rock solid defense and other times seems impossible to defend. In fact, once upon a time, players were looking for a forced win and almost succeeded. Personally, I love the Romantic school of chess. Before defensive techniques were discovered, it ruled the day.
Despite being overwhelmed in the opening, you actually reached a playable position. 25...h6 instead of f6 to get your rook in the game, counter-attacking ... and you're back from the dead.
The easiest answer in the opening is to play 4...d5 5.exd5 Qxd5, which still has quite a lot of theory, or accept the pawn and learn to trust 5...Nf6 and the two knight defenses in general.
That's the down side to defending double king pawn - you need to know an enormous amount of theory, beginning with why white failed to find a forced win or any substantive advantage. A lot of players think these old-school gambits have been refuted, but that's only true in the sense that refutation means an early clash resulting in no particular advantage. Still, they're dangerous. Today's grandmasters refrain from them because their games are published everyone will draw. There's still a few rogues out there though.
Hi Bruce, yes, I know move 25 lost a game. I made a move without thinking ---> therefore blundered. I was also surprised that I was coming back from the dead..seriously :) haha
It's difficult to reach safe harbor against gambits. At times 1.e5 e5 seems like a rock solid defense and other times seems impossible to defend. In fact, once upon a time, players were looking for a forced win and almost succeeded. Personally, I love the Romantic school of chess. Before defensive techniques were discovered, it ruled the day.
ReplyDeleteDespite being overwhelmed in the opening, you actually reached a playable position. 25...h6 instead of f6 to get your rook in the game, counter-attacking ... and you're back from the dead.
The easiest answer in the opening is to play 4...d5 5.exd5 Qxd5, which still has quite a lot of theory, or accept the pawn and learn to trust 5...Nf6 and the two knight defenses in general.
That's the down side to defending double king pawn - you need to know an enormous amount of theory, beginning with why white failed to find a forced win or any substantive advantage. A lot of players think these old-school gambits have been refuted, but that's only true in the sense that refutation means an early clash resulting in no particular advantage. Still, they're dangerous. Today's grandmasters refrain from them because their games are published everyone will draw. There's still a few rogues out there though.
Hi Bruce, yes, I know move 25 lost a game. I made a move without thinking ---> therefore blundered. I was also surprised that I was coming back from the dead..seriously :) haha
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