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You send me your email address and I will send you a copy of the 1965 article that Stefan Buecker sent me in 1996. Better yet, why don't you ask Stefan here yourself if he actually sent it to me? That is first.
Second, a full two years before Stefan sent me the article (and I was ignorant of Stadelman at the time), I published my games and analyses in issues 61, 62, 63 of Blackmar-Diemer Gambit World magazine. The editor-in-chief, Tom Purser, is still alive. He can confirm that I sent him the article for publication in late 1993 - early 1994.
NM Alan Watson of Illinois also published an analyses of the Zilbermints Gambit, 3...Nge7, in the November-December issue of Illinois Chess Bulletin. He was the editor-in-chief at the time.
All these publications predate the article that Stefan Buecker sent me by 1-3 years. I had no idea who Samuel Leigh Stadelman was until 1996. By that time, the name "Zilbermints Gambit" was well-established.
The origin of the Zilbermints Gambit lay in the simple fact that I considered the early deployment of the Queen (3...Qe7) risky. I therefore started looking for alternatives to 1 d4 e5 2 de5 Nc6 3 Nf3 Qe7. Thus was born the 3...Nge7 variation, in March 1993.
The first variations I analyzed were 4 Bg5 and 4 b3. It was not until the following year, 1994, that 4 Bf4 was analyzed more in-depth with Edward "Eddie" Kopiecki of New York.
To be fair, I tried locating more details about Samuel Leigh Stadelman, but had little success so far. I know where he lived, where he is buried (Ardmore, PA), but not his death date. Franklin Chess Club merged with Mercantile Chess Club in 1955 to form the present Franklin-Mercantile Chess Club. No one ever heard of Stadelman there, a sad indication that current members do not know the club's history.
More to the point, I cannot locate any games where Stadelman played 3...Nge7. The games that I can locate date to early 1900s, before World War One. In all these games, Stadelman does not play 1 d4 e5.
Thus, I can only surmise that what Stadelman sent to the Philadelphia Chess Inquirer (where fellow club member Walter Penn Shipley was chess editor) was analyses.
I hope this answers your questions as to the origin of the Zilbermints Gambit?
In honor of Stadelman, I named the following attack:
1 d4 e5 2 dxe5 Nc6 3 Nf3 Nge7 4 Bg5 h6 5 Bh4 g5 6 Bg3 Nf5
The line 4 Bg5 is known as the Wigglesworth Defense, after the first player to play it. White tries to pin the Ne7, by which he hopes to hold the gambit pawn. Now, the move 6...Nf5 attacks the Bishop and removes one defender. White will get the Bishop pair and get the pawn back.
That said, let me point something out, HTH. I do not agree with Markovich on everything, okay? But this here is a democratic forum, and he is the moderator. As we say in USA, I do not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend your right to say it. Freedom of speech!
You want to have everything your way, HTH? Fine. Then create your own blog, where you can make all the rules. But don't tell me I plagiarized something when I did not. For example, the Rasa-Studier Gambit was independently invented by two players, Rasa and Studier.
Also, show some respect to Markovich. He has a right to express his opinion, the same way as you do.
One more thing: I am quite sane.
Sincerely yours,
Gambit
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