A review of all Ernest Marx Memorial tournaments on USCF website showed that there were four, not five, of these. They were played in 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010 so far. I played in the Fourth, not Fifth, Ernest Marx Memorial tournament. Moderator, would you please make the correction to my earlier post?

Thanks!

Need I remind you, this is the BDG:Zilbermints Gambit in Euwe Defense? I would like to see some games you guys played with it!

Here are two of my games. And no, my opponents had not the benefit of computer analyses to help them. It was them against my tactical genius, the depths and thickets of the Zilbermints Gambit in the Euwe Defence... Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha......

Game 1:

Zilbermints - JasonMa
Internet Chess Club 
3 0 rated blitz
9 April 2010

1 d4 d5 2 e4 de4 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 f3 ef3 5 Nxf3 e6 6 Bg5 Be7 7 Bd3 Nc6 8 00 a6 9 a3! Nxd4 10 Kh1 Nxf3 11 Qxf3 Qd6 12 Ne4 Ne4 13 Qf7+ Kd8 14 Bxe4 Bxg5 15 Rad1 Bd7 16 Rxd6 cxd6 17 Qxg7 Re8 18 Qxg5+ Kc7 19 Bxh7 Rh8 20 Be4 Rag8 21 Qe3 d5 22 Bf3 Bb5 23 Re1 Bd7 24 h3 Rg3 25 Qf4+ Kc6 26 Qxg3 Be8 27 Rxe6+ Kb5 28 Bxd5 Bd7 29 Qb3+ Ka5 30 Qb4 mate.

Game 2: 

Zilbermints (2082) - Juan Tica (2058)
V Ernest Marx Memorial
Game in 90 minutes
Ridgewood, New Jersey
12 April 2010  


1 d4 d5 2 e4 de4 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 f3 ef3 5 Nxf3 e6 6 Bg5 Be7 7 Bd3 Nc6 8 00 Nxd4 9 Kh1 h6 10 Bf4 Nc6 11 Qe1 Nd5? 12 Nxd5 ed5 13 Qg3! Kf8 14 Bxc7 Qe8 15 Rae1 Be6?? 16 Rxe6! fxe6 17 Nd4+ 

Here 17 Bg6! was best, but I did not see it. Anyhow, there is more than one way to win in this position.

17...Bf6  18 Bd6+ Kg8  19 Nxc6 Qxc6  20 Rxf6 Rd8
21 Be5

Here 21 Rf7!! wins outright, but I only saw 21 Be5.

21...Rd7 22 Bf5! ef5 23 Rxc6 bc6 24 h4 Kh7 25 h5 Rf8 26 Qg6+ Kg8  27 Qxc6 Rff7 28 c3 Rfe7  29 Bd6
Re1+ 30 Kh2 Rf7 31 Qxd5 Re2 32 b4 f4  33 Bxf4 Rf2
34 Bg3 R2f5 35 Qd8+ Kh7  36 Qd3 Kh8  37 Kg1 Rxh5
38 c4 Rhf5  39 c5 g5  40 c6 h5 41 c7, Black resigns.

Winning this game netted me first place in the tournament, with 4.5/5 points.

What happens after 2.f3 e6 3.e4 c5 4.e5?

It's hard to not do this kind of thing. In all fairness, mine last two were quite borderline, but at least there were some moves in them. 

There's actually this database out there by David Zimbeck (I'm sure you know him Mark) that recommended the line I posted against 1...Nf6. Against 1...d5, there is some decent BDG coverage. No solutions for the strongest lines of course.

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I was being facetious. I thought it was obvious because of my overuse of exclams, but apparently I was way off.

To be fair, TonyRo is wrong! How is it a forced win? After 1 d4 Nf6 2 f3 c5 3 d5 e6 4 e4 ed5 5 e5 Qe7!
6 Qe2 Ng8 7 Nc3 d4 8 Nb5 Kd8 9 Nd6 Nc6 10 Bf4 Qe6 11 Kf2 Nge7 =

What a pity that neither 2...c5 nor 3...c5 were played.  Nor 4...c5, come to think of it.  2.f3.  Now there's a chess move for you.

3...e6 sounds like a good answer, especially since 4.f3?! (which is likely to tempt many BDG-ers) doesn't work after 4...Bb4.  3...c6 is a less effective way of avoiding the BDG as White can continue with 4.Bc4 followed by 5.f3, and 4.f3 is also playable.

The only problem with 3...e6 is that if you don't play the French, and are up against an 1.e4-player who meets the French with 3.Nc3 and sometimes dabbles in the BDG, you may end up move-ordered into a system that your opponent knows better than you!  At my local chess club a number of players used the Scandinavian and some of them weren't familiar with the French Defence, so when I played them and a few of the games went 1.e4 d5 2.d4 e6, it was them who found themselves in unfamiliar territory.