Gambit wrote on 03/21/12 at 05:16:49:
I played against 5 Bb3 on the chess.com website. My correspondence game can be found on Jim West's website, Jim West On Chess. There, I show how to play against 5 Bb3.
A gambit's refutation lies in its acceptance, Bobby Fischer once said. So, AMM, I do not understand why you refuse to play 5 Bxb5+ .
Gambit, I don't know why I should capture on 'b5' ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Bc4 b5?! ) when I think this is the worst answer to 4..b5?!. Even 5.Bxg8 Rxg8 can give White adventage:
a) 6.Qe2!?
b) 6.exf5 Bxf5 ( 6..e4 7.Qe2 Qe7 8.Ng5 etc.
Baudoin-Dominici, 1993 ) 7.Qe2 etc. several games
c) 6.dxe5 dxe5 7.Qe2 Bd6 8.0-0 Ba6? (
Mangion-Zilbermints, 2011) 9.exf5 b4 10.Qe4
In 2006 Michael Goeller asked to the community what is the best Black move against 4.Bc4. In the games where
Jim West himself played Black against the line, he chose
4..Nc6 which suggests that he does not fully trust the standards 4…exd4 or 4..fxe4 ( 4..b5 was not known yet ): I've tons of West games, and
Always play
4..Nc6, so then we should consider this move as relatively best one.
If
Markovich believes 5.Nc3 etc. is simplest we must continue the analysis at this point. Of course, this seems more relevant than Black resources on 5.dxe5 and 5.Ng5