CraigEvans wrote on 03/10/11 at 18:54:43:
Gambit wrote on 03/10/11 at 16:50:49:
I wrote the book on 8 00 Nxd4 9 Kh1 line, my dear chap. Everyone else just contributed their own ideas.
And yes, 9...c6 does not solve Black's problems. I call it the "Waiting Out" approach, the most cowardliest one. As for the Gunderam Defense, 5...Bf5, I have played many times against it, and won.
Lev may have written the book, but he seems to have written it in the style of Schiller, missing out the most important chapter.
Rewrite it Lev - find some improvements which save white in this line (9...Nc6). You've had five years now. You're still two pawns down for hopes and traps.
Schiller? Ewww... He can't write worth crap. His books are full of factual errors, typos, mispellings, wrong dates, missing information, wrong analyses, etc. Good gracious! Schiller originally recommended (Unorthodox Openings, 1987) 7...Nc6 as the refutation of the BDG. Then, in 1993, I came up with the Zilbermints Gambit. Two years later, at the sidelines of the 1995 New York Open, I challenged him to a match. He accepted, but he never played the Euwe Defense! Instead, I had to drag him into the BDG by a transposition from the Caro-Kann. Our BDG games were tied, with 2 wins for each player. The last game was a French Defense, which he won. Schiller then claimed that the BDG was refuted. However, the fact is that the last game was not a BDG! The score was tied, 2-2, as far as BDG was concerned.
In my games, I give possible moves for the White player. Everything is based on extant games with the Zilbermints Gambit. These come from Internet Chess Club; correspondence; tournament practice; blitz matches, casual games... As of this writing, there are 317 extant games with the ZGED.
With increasing popularity, I shall publish a new edition of my book.
Let me point out to my detractors that Lev D. Zilbermints is not Eric Schiller. I check my historical data; find games to back up my arguments; play games; and make sure there are no typos. Schiller cannot boast of that.
I agree with Arkhein's 12 Bf4 as the best move. In fact, I am using that move in a slightly different variation. So, I'll post lines later here. All we have seen here is that 12 Bh4? is a mistake.
Your opinions have been noted and will be addressed. I should point out however, that it is easy for you to sit at a computer, without a clock ticking, and throw out variations that supposedly refute this or that. But in a serious OTB tournament game, bereft of your precious Rybka, you would not stand a chance. All the more if you were to play me after you had played a couple of other games in 2-3 prior rounds.
Sheesh, I can turn this around by buying Rybka and saying supposed variation XYZ refutes the Danish Gambit, the Smith-Morra or Queen's Gambit! Which, my dear chap, is what you are doing. I'm just illustrating the false pretense of your argument.
I can, and will, post some games with ZGED here later on, just to illustrate the gambit is pretty much alive and kicking. So-called refutations on the other hand, are so much trash in a stray cat's litter box.
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