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Evans Gambit (part 3)

When I opened my eyes, I saw that I was in some dark room. “Oh, thanks God!” I thought. “It was just a dream. It was just a dream.” I was thirsty, so I tried to stand up to drink something, but then I filled strong pain in my right leg and right shoulder. I screamed! It was like somebody sticks a knife in my body! Then suddenly light turned on and I sow that I was in hospital! A doctor came to me and asked if I’m O.K. Yeah, right. I’m perfect, don’t worry about killing pain in my leg and shoulder. And then I remembered everything! Hungary, chess, punch, car. The Evans Gambit! (Read what happened to me in the part 1 and the part 2.)

So now, I’m lying at home and trying to introduce you the opening which caused me so much troubles. Right leg is broken, I have few bruises and cuts on body, but nothing seriously. Right shoulder isn’t broken, they just had to put the bones on their place.

For this final article about Evans Gambit I prepared 3 legendary Evans Gambits. First example is one of the first Evans Gambits played by Captain Evans himself! In the second game, you will see how chess-God, Bobby Fischer (please allow me to call him chess-God), played the opening. In the last one you will see how Kasparov beat Anand with the gambit! The last game was very hard to analyze because both players played so correctly that only small differences decided who would win. In the final position of the game, White has only small advantage, but Anand realized it's enough for Kasparov to win.

So, let’s the journey begins!

In the next article: oh, sorry there is no more articles about the Evans Gambit.

I hope you enjoyed! Take care and see you soon in other lessons!

Hey wait! But what happened with Mr. H.?

 

Other lectures:

Evans Gambit (part 1)

Evans Gambit (part 2)

Evans Gambit (part 3)

Fischer-Sozin Attack (part 1)

Comments


  • 12 Months Ago

    GoodGuy93

    With correct play by Black, EG is draw. Anyway, some players (even GMs) don't want to play it because it has many traps. So the best way to prevent it, is to play 3. ... Nf6 instead of Bc5.

    The main line: 3. ... Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5! (if 5. ... Nxd5? 6. d4! or Nxf7!? and White wins) 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 (or Qf3) h6 and after either Nf3 or Nh3!? (Bobby Fischer used to play this way) the position is very sharp. Black gets developing advantage for the pawn, but White will develop soon, so both sides have to be very careful.

  • 12 Months Ago

    Jigar

    Well this is the supperb article... but can anyone tell me how to prevent EG if we are at black side???

  • 14 Months Ago

    benjamma100

    ahhh i need to know What happened to Mr. H and oh yeah i like EG as well! Cool

  • 16 Months Ago

    Capltal

    thank you guys for sharing all these variation very nice..

  • 18 Months Ago

    rontherag

    great sharing of knowledge

  • 20 Months Ago

    faisal_dew

    great posts////rea;;y great

  • 20 Months Ago

    Aidyl1

    very nice article !

  • 20 Months Ago

    drumdaddy

    Very interesting series of articles on the Evans Gambit. Old Captain Evans was on to something good. Fischer's bold win against Fine (both were chess geniuses) was breathtaking, as many of Bobby's games are. Thank you so much for assembling these fine games and for your humorous writings. I hope you are healing well. Peace.

  • 20 Months Ago

    GoodGuy93

    crogers, thank you for contribution.

    The best move for Anand was 25. ... Qd7 keeping the Bishop. But White still has big advantage! I added more lines at the end of the game, so have a look.

  • 20 Months Ago

    crogers

    Great series Davor!!! A small note, in the last game Kasparov-Anand, Anand actually resigned because he loses a clear piece!

    The end might have played out like this:

  • 20 Months Ago

    GoodGuy93

    milanc, unfortunately I have to say that White maid a mistake in 10th move. The right moves are:

    10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ba3 O-O 12. Rad1 and White has big advantage!

    So this game doesn't show how to play EG with Black pieces.

  • 20 Months Ago

    milanc

    In defence of playing Evans Gambit Accepted as black, here is a game I played against fellow chess.com player. White resigned, although I thought the game was far from being over - I felt that I barely started to breathe...

    (edit, modified diagram to include suggestions from GoodGuy93)

     

  • 20 Months Ago

    Nematode

    Really good article! You gotta write #4 ! What happened to Mr. H ? Don't leave me hanging man! Tongue out

  • 20 Months Ago

    -specter-

    Great work Davor, thanks

  • 20 Months Ago

    aldlv

    amazing, i had lose once and win once against EG, but i had never tried to do it

    so, how about how to stop the evans gambit, that would be a great blog, and a necessary after this (to avoid problems, obviously)

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