Markovich wrote on 03/21/12 at 11:30:09:
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+ .
Would you please be good enough to provide a link? That site has a huge archive and there is no obvious way to find your game.
P.S. I found Simmons - Zilbermintz, but its 5.Bb3 fxe4 6.Nxe5 is not critical. Do you have something against 6.Nc3?
In 2001 our ChessPubDirector Tony Kosten wrote a book titled "The Latvian gambit lives !".
In 2012 we should write another article titled "Can PCG survive ?". If after below anwers, all depends on Newark's 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Bc4
b5?! we are walking in a wrong way. By the way, the same position arises from a known Latvian gambit line: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Bc4 b5?! ( Strautins' move ) 4.Bb3! d6 5.d4. and most of the noted games goes from this trasposition
So, after Newark-Zilbermints gambit order, White plays
5.Bb3! and now I'll repeat my answer:
- 5..h6? 6.dxe5 Ne7 7.Nh4! Qd7? 8.e6
Fiorito-Alloin, 1983 - 5..Nf6?! 6.dxe5 Nxe4? 7.Qd5 +-
Ouwerkerk-Zagt, 1982 - 5..exd4?! 6.Nxd4 fxe4? 7.Qh5+ +-
Janssen-Boll, 1975 - 5..Nc6?! 6.dxe5 ( or 6.Ng5!? ) 6..Nxe5?? ( 6..dxe5 7.Bd5! )
Niemand-Purins, 1983; now 7.Bxg8! and 8.Qd5 +-
- 5..fxe4:
- 6.0-0 c6 7.Ne5 ( 7.Ng5?! d5 8.Nc3 ) 7..dxe5 8.Qh5+ Kd7 8.dxe5 perhaps is favourable for White, but less clear than following below lines (
Atars-Gasser, 1969 and
Diepstraten-Druke, 1990 )
- 6.Nxe5 dxe5 7.Qh5+ Kd7 ( 7..g6?? 8.Qxe5+ Qe7 9.Qxh8 +-
Dinu- Popescu, 1995 ) 8.dxe5 ( 8.Qf5+?! Kc6 9.Qxe4+ Kb6
DePalma-Zilbermintz, 2011 and
Simmons-Zilbermintz, 2012 or 8.Qxe5 Bd6
Hebrard-Jester, 1987 are not so good ) 8..Kc6 (!?) 9.Qe2 Bc5 10.a4 with some preasure, but Black still defends !
- 6.Ng5!? d5 ( 6..Nh6 7.Nxe4 Bf5 8.Qf3 d5 9.Nec3 ) 7.dxe5 c6 and now instead 8.e6 (
Schild-Bullockus, 1979 ) 8..Nf6 9.Nf7 Qc7 10.Nxh8 Bxe6 11.Nc3 Nbd7 or several games where first player played 8.0-0, best seems
8.Nc3 Bb6 9.e6! or even 8.Nxe4!? of
Strelis-Alberts, 1979 - 6.dxe5!? ( you could analyze many ways )
- 6.Cc3! - pointed by
Markovich - and all moves are bad; f.i. - 6..Qd7? ( 6..Nf6 7.dxe5 ) 7.Ng5 Nh6 8.Be6
Courthiau-Simonet, 1982, but other Black 6th. moves are weak too
Summarizing: we have to find another better move as Black instead of this ones, but I've seen rest of 4th. moves are also dfficult ...