Sam Sloan beat USCF Master Richard Koepcke in 10 moves
On Nov 12, 6:47 pm, help bot wrote:
On Nov 12, 5:11 pm, Fromper wrote:
You know, everyone makes fun of the Englund Gambit, but I think most
of the people who ridicule it would have a tougher time beating it
than they think.
Perhaps you should re-think that; it is not the gambit
/itself/ a player has to beat. All a player needs to do is
take the superior position an unsound gambit provides,
and then work with it a bit.
I've used it three times in USCF tournament games and
scored two wins and a draw, all against opponents rated above me.
Very nice! Would you like to bet that your lucky
streak will continue were you to play someone who
is not rattled by an opponent going "out of book", so
to speak, early? I have been playing at GetClub for
quite some time, and have seen everything under the
Sun; it makes no difference to me that the program
has what Sanny calls "bugs", but which I suspect
are merely "features", like frequent Windows crashes
or self-canceling turn signals. A bad move is still bad,
even if it steers into positions you have studied and
which most opponents are unfamiliar with.
It may not be playable at the grandmaster level
I don't know about that; Rybka has been quite
successful with virtually any one-pawn gambit, so
far.
but for us class
players, it's a good way to get into an open, tactical dogfight.
If you cannot get into an open, tactical dogfight
without this sort of thing, perhaps you are playing
the sound openings incorrectly. Truth be told, I
*rarely* get anything but a tactical dogfight, even
though I like semi-closed, strategical positions!
One fellow in particular seems to be convinced
that trading off pieces will help him achieve a
draw; trouble is, he loses ground with each
effort to trade off one more piece, and all these
backwards "baby steps" lead every time to a bad
position which, although simplified a bit, cannot
be held (but even here, the tactics abound).
If you /must/ play inferior gambits, try to select
those which at least have something in their
favor besides surprise value. (Look at poor Mr.
Sloan: he is reduced to playing Damiano's
Defense and grotesquely mishandling the Grob.)
Why not give the decent gambits a try, or play
tactical lines which do not entail dropping any
material whatever? Afraid of 1.d4? Never fear--
there are numerous /sound/ replies, and not all
of them are boring.
-- help bot
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