Winning with the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit

Submitted by jaysonjones06 on Mon, 07/06/2009 at 7:56am.

Hello everyone, here's another opening for you gambiteers. This is known as the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, again not recommended for GM's, those who don't like to sacrifice material for position and people who prone to nose-bleeds. It starts as 1. d4 1..d5 2.e4 2..dxe 3.Nc3!? developing, this was popular during the romantic era where master's would sacrifice pawns, knights or even a rook for a "vicous" mating or positional attack.

Heres the Following:

This is a game of mine where my opponent who is astrong player might I add, fell victim to greed. You see I don't mind students playing aggressively BUT you must make sure your king has an escape before his defenders leave his side. As with all my Gambit openings please do not use if you can't stand or understand the sacrifice of material for positional play. Any comments or improvements please feel free to share.

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by jaysonjones06 - 4 months ago
Pattaya Thailand

Member Since: Apr 2009
Member Points: 11

FirebrandX, your a strong player and at local time (330 am) when we played you got the best of me. Hope to see you again.

BTW, the scandi is a great defense.

Jayson Jones

by FirebrandX - 4 months ago
Denton, TX United States

Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 56

Hello I'm new here on chess.com. Jayson and I played a couple games. On his game as white, we had a rather interesting triple-transposition of the opening. I opted for the Scandinavian (I'm a fan of the Qd6 Scandi), then Jayson played d4 to offer a straight up Blackmar, then I converted it into a French defense (which I played for many years), and then finally from there Jayson offered up the f-pawn to force it back into the Blackmar. Normally I play a kingside fianchetto system against the Blackmar, but this time I was a bit caught up in the center and had to play more classically. I ended up winning, though I was disappointed in my play towards the end as I missed winning the rook twice in a row. I chalk it up to being new with the interface :P

[Event "Online Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2009.07.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "jaysonjones06"]
[Black "FirebrandX"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1527"]
[BlackElo "1648"]
[TimeControl "1 in 0.0034722222222222 days"]
[Termination "FirebrandX won on time"]

1.e4 d5 2.d4 e6 3.Be3 dxe4 4.f3 Nf6 5.Nc3 exf3 6.Nxf3 Be7 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.O-O c5 9.Ne5 cxd4 10.Bxd4 Nxe5
11.Bxe5 O-O 12.Qe1 b6 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Qe4 Qd4+ 15.Kh1 Qxe4 16.Nxe4 Be7 17.Rf3 Bb7 18.Rg3 Bxe4 19.Bxe4 Rad8 20.Rh3 g6
21.Bd3 Bf6 22.Rb1 Rd6 23.Rf3 Bg7 24.Rbf1 f5 25.Re1 Kf7 26.Rfe3 Bxb2 27.Bc4 Re8 28.c3 Kf6 29.Bb5 Re7 30.c4 Bd4
31.Rd3 Bc5 32.Rh3 h5 33.Ra3 e5 34.Rae3 e4 35.R3e2 Rd3 36.Rf1 Ke5 37.g4 hxg4 0-1

Anyway I've never felt the Blackmar was objectively any good. The opening is a gimmick that fails when black plays a strong defense to reach an endgame with an extra pawn to his/her arsenal. Granted, white can win some spectacular attacking games, but this again is based on the gimmick of "hoping" your opponent can't handle defending against white's extra tempo. This often does work at the club level, and that's probably why the opening still holds a few fans.

by PavleKosic - 4 months ago
Belgrade Serbia

Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 225

If you are interested we can try playing thematic Blackmar-diemer game unreated, to see what are blacks best moves, and best consolidation moves for black.

by BladeRunner - 4 months ago
Southern California United States

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 72

Nice game. I've been thinking of playing the BDG, but so far I haven't done so.

by jaysonjones06 - 4 months ago
Pattaya Thailand

Member Since: Apr 2009
Member Points: 11

Pavlekosic, at this point in the game it is difficult for black to find a good move. i.e. 12..e6 or g6 then Nxd7 eying the f7 and a8 points respectfully. Thank you for your comments.

Jayson Jones

by PavleKosic - 4 months ago
Belgrade Serbia

Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 225

If I were black on move 6. I would play c6. To kick of your knight and create a solid structure. Move 12. is a great blunder from your oponent, create to much weakneses. Much better would e6, or even g6, with plan of fianchetoing his bishop.

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