Preferred openings by the top 20 chess players in history. At the same time, top players have hardly been frightened by the evans gambit, and the same minds which elucidated better attacking chances for white also improved blacks defensive chances. There are several lasker variations in the chess openingsincluding lasker s defense to the queens gambitlaskers defense to the evans gambit which effectively ended the use of this gambit in tournament play until a revival in the s and the lasker variation in the mccutcheon variation of the french defense. Black immediately challenges the center by offering up his own unprotected pawn on e5. Evans gambit accepted chess gambits harking back to the. The evans gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves. Emanuel lasker was the second official world chess champion, reigning for a record 27 years after he defeated the first world champion, wilhelm steinitz, in 1894. Abbreviated listing of chess eco codes code variation. The main problem for white was that lasker s defense was so sound that it was considered a problem and white. Since then, many players at our club have made the lasker part of their repertoires and quite a few have developed interesting innovations with it. Traditionally this has led to a doubleedged game after a long and fairly forcing line. The titanic capablancaalekhin struggle was fought out mainly with the queens gambit declined whereas the era of steinitz was more concerned with the gambit accepted. The lasker trap derives from the queens gambit declined lines and in particular comes from the albin countergambit. The first game with the opening is considered to be evans mcdonnell, london 1827.
There are several lasker variations in the chess openings, including lasker s defense to the queens gambit, lasker s defense to the evans gambit which effectively ended the use of this gambit in tournament play until a revival in the 1990s, and the lasker variation in the mccutcheon variation of the french defense. Kings knight opening includes gunderam defence, greco defence, damiano defence, elephant gambit, and latvian gambit. The evans gambit is a very aggressive line in the giuoco piano that has yet to be refuted. This line has for a long time been the main antidote to the evans gambit. Nd5 re8 click for larger view now yeah, there is no way that a modern gm could be felled by the evans gambit. Study chess openings by watching grandmaster gm games. Kasparovkramnik 2000 by karsten muller 58 page ebook of all the games annotated free ebooks from pdf,cbv,doc and djvu formats links below take you to the download page for that section of books beginners chess books edward lasker chess strategy eng, 1915. Chess games evans gambit, lasker defence alexander alekhine vs sachovskoj 1. I think it is whites best continuation in the giuoco piano and gi.
Read books about the opening in general and specific openings. Evans gambit lasker defence grandmaster games database. Latvian gambit philidors defense russian petroffs defense ponziani opening scotch game three knights opening four knights opening italian game guioco piano hungarian defense evans gambit two knights defense max lange attack two knights defense spanish opening ruy lopez birds defense old steinitz defense schliemann gambit cordel. Nowadays black most often accepts the gambit with the aim of returning the pawn at a good moment in order to equalise or get a positional advantage, but there are also lines in which black holds onto one extra pawn. While the lasker defense was no longer held as a refutation of the opening, it became one among several good defensive methods. Use our huge chess games and chess opening database to. The albin counter gambit is a response to the queens gambit, begging with the moves 1. Volume 1 of our new trilogy on the perhaps most fascinating chessplayer of all time dr. Encyclopedia of opening blunders learn to play chess by learning the opening mistakes and traps that have been discovered over time. Queens gambit declined, lasker defense 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 nc3 nf6 4 bg5 be7 5 e3 oo 6 nf3 h6 7 bh4 ne4 8 bxe7 qxe7.
White sacrifices a pawn for rapid piece development. He also introduced an important common sense defense to the evans gambit, and has sometimes been connected to what is now known as the sveshnikov sicilian. In the evans gambit games 1719 white does this directly with 4 b4, already bar. In the summer and fall of 2005, fm steve stoyko gave a series of lectures at the kenilworth chess club on lasker s defense to the queens gambit declined. Gambit and french defence and play open games instead. Gambito evans chess forums evans, who invented it in dont tell me chess moves. The evans gambit is an aggressive variation of the giuoco piano. This is the book that kindled my interest in the evans gambit, and because gm michael rohde often qoutes moodys the evans gambit revolution and hardings evans gambit and a system vs. Learning chess openings is an important part of any productive chess training. Evans gambit and giuoco piano 71 introduction these two openings arise after black develops his bishop to the activelooking c5square. For those players that like to play the giuoco piano i highly recommend playing the evans gambit. The evans gambit was invented by captain william davies evans 17901872 in the 1820s. Laskers defence has often been considered one of the safer retreats, and has been played by viswanathan anand. White hopes to set up a strong pawn center immediately and often uses ba3 to prevent black.
Last week, we looked at the origins of the exciting evans gambit. White offers a pawn to divert the black bishop on c5. Statistician jeff sonas of chessmetrics writes, if you look across players entire careers, there is a significant amount of statistical. Two knights defense both 1st and 2nd editions that i also acquired those books. Lasker s defense the idea behind retreating the bishop to e7 is to place it in a safe square, away from the threats of whites central pawns. Page 6 page 7 bill wall 700 opening traps quick rules of chess the point of chess is to attack the enemy king and checkmate the king so that it cannot move to any square without also being attacked.
The program is designed for studying the blunders in more than 40 openings and contains over 1,250 instructive exercises of varying difficulty from practical games. Search the chess games database, download games, view frequent practitioners and browse the opening explorer. If black accepts, white can follow up with c3 and d4, ripping open the centre, while also opening diagonals to play ba3 or qb3 at some point, preventing black from. Eventually white feared it so much that the exchange variation was used to avoid it. Evans gambit and a system vs two knights defense by harding, t. Lasker, alekhine, schach, evans gambit see images individually. Alekhines defence everyman chess by nigel davies paperback book the fast free. The evans was once popular, but then along came wilhelm steinitz who advocated a torturous defense against it. Hes not about to give that up just to restore material equality.
The position after the 10th move given in the question is clearly better for black but be aware that white players will improve on move 7 or 8. Evans s idea is based on decoying the bc5 from defense of d4 and owes some of its strength to the fact that blacks usual freeing move. Much like other gambits, the evans gambit gives up an early pawn in exchange for rapid development and a lead in center control. Our forefathers brilliant combinations, their imaginative attacking plans and even certain endgame analysis. Urusov gambit, panov variation urusov gambit ponziani gambit greco gambit berlin defense four pawns gambit macdonnell double gambit wing gambit lewis gambit del rio variation lewis counter gambit pratt variation philidor variation lopez gambit classical variation calabrese counter gambit, jaenisch variation calabrese counter gambit lisitsyn. After emanuel lasker s simplifying defense to the opening in a. He was followed by emanuel lasker who employed a defensive plan that pretty much relegated the evans gambit to obscurity. Our forefathers brilliant combinations, their imaginative attacking plans and even certain endgame analysis have entered forever into the thesaurus of chess.
Next week we will move on to lasker s vanquisher, jose raul capablanca. This is a quiet and solid variation, very similar to the stoneware defense the main difference is that the bishop on e7 allows black to protect the pawn on e5. Publication date 1991 topics chess, evans gambiet, tweepaardenspel. Kings gambit accepted, abbazia defence classical defence, modern defence c37. In both cases white challenges the bishop and aims to gain time to construct his centre and prepare an attack. Emanuel lasker born dec241868, died jan111941, 72 years old germany what is this. Is laskers defense effective against the evans gambit. Evansgambit ar en gambit som karaktariseras av dragen. The evans gambit is an aggressive line of the giuoco piano. In fact, the defense named after lasker was first played in one of the. Evans gambit how to play it, attack it, and counter it. The cambridge springs defense was once the most popular variation of the queens gambit declined.
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