Hello all,

  Why is this thread strangely silent recently? I have good news for you!  On Thursday,  4 Agust 2005, I was at the Marshall Chess Club, and one of my acquaintances approached me. He said that he heard of chesspublishing.com  and even subscribed to it! One reason was, he wanted to see all the BDG games!  Interesting, huh?

In conclusion, here is an interesting game. It is not a BDG, but the attacks are straight from the 19th century!

Zilbermints - cedartree 
Internet Chess Club
5 minute rated blitz,
4 August 2005

FRENCH DEFENSE
Winawer, Advance Variation

1 d4 e6  2 e4 d5  3 Nc3 Nf6  4 Bg5 Bb4  5 e5 h6  6 Bd2 Bxc3  7 Bxc3 Ne4 8 Ne2 Nxc3  9 Nxc3 00  10 Bd3 c5  11 dxc5 Qc7 12 f4 Qxc5  13 Qg4  Nc6  14 Rf1 Nb4  15 Rf3!  Qg1+  16 Kd2!!  A sacrifice a la Adolf Anderssen!  16...Qxa1  17 Rg3   g5  18 fxg5  h5  19 Qxh5  Nxd3  20 g6!! Qe1+  21 Kxd3 Qxg3+  22 hxg3  fxg6  23 Qxg6  Kh8  24 Ne2  Bd7           25 Nf4 Rad8  26 Nh5, 1-0.       
This game demonstrates that avoiding the BDG can just get you into trouble.

Lev's attention to detail surely does inspire confidence don't ya think. 

Toppler

1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5 de4 5 f3 e3 is what you are asking about?

 

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I will post games with 9...h6 when time permits. Right now I am finishing up registering for the Fall 2005 semester in college.  For now, I will say that yes, after 9...h6 , Bh4 is a bad move. The reason is that the Bishop is pointing in the wrong direction! Often, the Bxh6 sac is decisive in winning the game. Thus, the  correct moves are 10 Bf4; 10 Bd2; and 10 Be3 , in that order.

As far as the sequence  1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5 e3?! is concerned, what do you expect from opponents who are afraid of gambits?  They are cowards. Those who have guts will capture with 4...exf3; those who are afraid of gambits, will chicken out with 4...e3?! The mentality of these opponents goes like so:  Oooh, it's a gambit! Let me chicken out fast!

Later I will post a few games where I beat the s--t out of the 4...e3 line.    Nothing makes me angrier than seeing my opponent chicken out like a base yellow coward  with the Langeheinecke Defense, 4...e3. When I see this move played against me, that is a clear signal my opponent does not like gambits or open positions.

Sadly, even master-strength titled players chicken out with 4...e3 in the BDG. Yellow cowardice! That move allows the re-capture, 5 Bxe3. The f-pawn prepares g4-h4 pawn storm should Black castle on the Kingside. And the g1- Knight can go to either e2/h3 depending on taste and position.

 Oh, and did anyone know that Armand Edward Blackmar (1826-1888)    was a Confederate veteran of the U.S. Civil War? He invented the Blackmar Gambit,    1 d4 d5 2 e4 de4 3 f3. 

Now, the question is: Do you believe in reincarnation?
Personally speaking, I do. I believe in past lives and reincarnation.

  Emil Joseph Diemer, in my opinion, was the reincarnation of Armand Edward Blackmar. He came back to deal with unfinished business: improving the Blackmar Gambit and making it better. In that he succeeded.

  Want to see some of my predictions about the future?
I will be posting them shortly...in another thread.

But here is one:

In the 2010s, a great world war will come,

Then there will come a clash of two civilizations,

East and West, Mesopotamia and America,

The Barbary Pirates again shall come,

Europe will be ruled by the Evil One,

Happen it will in the first decade after 2001. [2001+10] 


Questions? Analyses? Let me know.

Until then, keep analyzing and debating.

I have come to some of TopNotch's conclusions already a couple of years ago, but was interested in other people's opinion on 5...e3. I also agree, that 6.Bxe3 is simply a loss of tempo. But still I have a few doubts.
i) Compare with the Danish Gambit Declined: 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 d3 promises White an edge. Then why not after the mirrored structure with 5...e3 ?
ii) In the French Burn version 5.f3 e3 Black has already shut his queen's bishop in. How important is this?
iii) What about 5.f3 e3 6.Qd3 intending to take with the queen on e3 at some stage?

As I never had much faith, I have never tried 5.f3. Two additional reasons I have mentioned in the post before: 7...Nc6 and 7...Nbd7/8...c5.

But the option to play a classical gambit against the oh so solid Burn Variation intrigues me ... If this deserves a name, than it should be the Peters Gambit, as a certain Peters played this in Zaandam, The Netherlands, a few times about 50 years ago.

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.f3 What exotic name does Zilber have for this one? 

The Zilber French Rubensteinster Gambit perhaps

I like 5...e3 here for three reasons.

A) It wins a useful tempo whenever White captures it.

B) Its damn annoying for White who without the automatic use of the f-file will have to switch on his brain.

C) Last but by no means least, the pawn looks really stupid on f3 where a Knight should be. 

Conclusion, Black is slightly better but White has decent drawing chances with precise play.

Toppylov

I think 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e6 4.f3?! e5 is an improved version for Black compared to 3...e5.

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Black has easy equality in the lemberger 1 d4 d5 2 e4 dxe4 3 Nc3 e5 4 Nge2 Bb4! That is for me an easy game. And what if he choses to play the french? Alternatively he can face the complications head on with accepting the pawn. Black has so many good chance, he can get an equal, if boring  position, he can transpose to a french, an opening most players will agree is good, or he can boldly go for the complications.