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Re: Latvian encounter
Reply #5 - 04/16/09 at 02:06:20
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Thanks for all the useful feedback guys.

This stuff is hard to find in the traditional databases.

Special thanks to AMM, and I will definetly check out that link you gave.

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Re: Latvian encounter
Reply #4 - 04/15/09 at 17:31:34
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TopNotch wrote on 04/14/09 at 07:04:46:
In a recent rapid tournament an FM surprised me with the Latvian gambit, caught off guard I responded with: 

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Qf6 4.Nc4 fxe4 5.Nc3 Qg6 6.d3 Bb4 7.Bd2 Nf6 8.Nxe4 Bxd2+ 9.Qxd2 d5 10.Ne5 My opponent after due reflection responded with 10...Qf5 after which I consolidated and won without too much difficulty following 11.Nxf6+ Qxf6 12.d4. During the game however I wondered about the viability of 10...Nxe4 11.Nxg6 Nxd2 12.Nxh8 Nxf1 and checking it with Fritz  afterwards, it does seem to represent Black's best try due to the unfortunate fate of White's trapped Knight on h8. 

Can the Latvian experts out there shed some further light on the theory of this Bd2 line, in particular whether 9...d5, 10.Ne5 or 10...Nxe4 has been tested before in CC or OTB play. 

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This line was also played in Ginzburg - Perez Pietronave, Argentina, 1995 and after 9.Qxd2 d5 yes indeed 10.Nxf6+ Qxf6 11.Qe3+ Be6 12.Ne5 0-0 13.Be2 Nd7 14.d4 seems best, but now instead of 14...c5, Black must to try 14..Qf4!? .

More interesting ALL this lines was given by amateur D.Zimbeck in his web http://www.zimbeckchess.com/chess_site_006.htm including surpresively 10.Ne5 Nxe4! 11.Nxg6 Nxd2 12.Nxh8 Nxf1 with aprox. equality although engines take sometime to see this.

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Re: Latvian encounter
Reply #3 - 04/15/09 at 00:13:14
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Stefan Buecker wrote on 04/14/09 at 08:19:53:
Both Diepstraten (Lettisch Gambiet. Deel 1, Venlo-Antwerpen 1993) and Tony Kosten (The Latvian Gambit Lives!, London 2001) have 7...Nf6 8.Nxe4 Bxd2+ 9.Nexd2, .

Yes, I was bit dismissive of 7...Nf6 as I gave it a ?! but it is probably Black's best chance, and after 9 Qxd2 then 9...0-0, as has been played a couple of times (Howell,J-Beyer,H/Hamburg 1992, and De Dovitiis,A-Perez Pietronave,C/Argentina 2006), with a little comp for the pawn. I agree with Stefan that 9...d5 10 Nxf6+ and 11 Qe3+ is good for White as he can defend the e5-knight with the d-pawn and block the e-file.
  
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Re: Latvian encounter
Reply #2 - 04/14/09 at 23:29:36
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Thanks for the info Stefan.

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Re: Latvian encounter
Reply #1 - 04/14/09 at 08:19:53
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Both Diepstraten (Lettisch Gambiet. Deel 1, Venlo-Antwerpen 1993) and Tony Kosten (The Latvian Gambit Lives!, London 2001) have 7...Nf6 8.Nxe4 Bxd2+ 9.Nexd2, although the last move gives Black some vague compensation after 9...0-0. Perhaps someone else can say whether 9. Qxd2 has since occurred in practice. In any case your 9.Qxd2! seems to be an improvement. 9...d5, and here the PC prefers 10.Nxf6+ Qxf6 11.Qe3+ followed by 12.Ne5, when it is difficult to see enough play for the pawn. But other Latvian lines are problematic, too, so this may still be worth a look.
  
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Latvian encounter
04/14/09 at 07:04:46
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In a recent rapid tournament an FM surprised me with the Latvian gambit, caught off guard I responded with: 

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Qf6 4.Nc4 fxe4 5.Nc3 Qg6 6.d3 Bb4 7.Bd2 Nf6 8.Nxe4 Bxd2+ 9.Qxd2 d5 10.Ne5 My opponent after due reflection responded with 10...Qf5 after which I consolidated and won without too much difficulty following 11.Nxf6+ Qxf6 12.d4. During the game however I wondered about the viability of 10...Nxe4 11.Nxg6 Nxd2 12.Nxh8 Nxf1 and checking it with Fritz  afterwards, it does seem to represent Black's best try due to the unfortunate fate of White's trapped Knight on h8. 

Can the Latvian experts out there shed some further light on the theory of this Bd2 line, in particular whether 9...d5, 10.Ne5 or 10...Nxe4 has been tested before in CC or OTB play. 

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Toppy Smiley  
  
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