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Halloween gambit
Halloween gambit The deadliest opening ever in history of chessHalloween gambit the most agressive Gambit
In this blog, i am going to tell you about the most dangerous gambit ever played and will tell you a brief description of it and how to play it.
Hello friends , welcome back to my blogs, in this blog as you already know we will learn a dangerous opening which many people fear which is the halloween gambit. By his name you can understand how dangerous it is . So lets not waste any more time, Lets start , shall we!
Below i have given a analysed study of The halloween gambit pls see it. Then we start with the halloween gambit.
The Halloween Gambit (also known as the Müller–Schulze Gambit or Leipzig Gambit) is an aggressive chess opening gambit in which White sacrifices a knight early on for a single pawn. The opening is an offshoot of the normally staid Four Knights Game and is defined by the moves:
The theoretician Oskar Cordel reported in 1888 that Leipzig club players used the opening to dangerous effect, but he did not believe it was sound. Their name for it, Gambit Müller und Schulze, was not after any players by those names, but rather a jocular German equivalent of "Smith and Jones", or, "Tom, Dick, and Harry". The modern name "Halloween Gambit" was given by the German player Steffen Jakob, who explained that "Many players are shocked, the way they would be frightened by a Halloween mask, when they are mentally prepared for a boring Four Knight's, and then they are faced with Nxe5."[1]
White's objective is to seize the center with pawns and drive back Black's knights. After 4... Nxe5, White usually plays 5. d4 (5.f4 does nothing for development), after which Black can retreat the attacked knight to either g6 or c6.
5...Ng6 retreat
When Black retreats 5...Ng6, White chases the f6-knight with 6.e5. Then after 6...Ng8 7.Bc4, former world champion Max Euwe recommended 7...d5 8.Bxd5 c6, contending in volume 11 of his opening series that Black has a decisive advantage.[1]Instead of holding on to the extra piece with the usual 6...Ng8, a more logical continuation according to Eric Schiller is 6...Bb4, giving Black the better game after 7.exf6 Qxf6 with a lead in development and pressure in the center.
7...Bb4 – Natural, But Not The Best
7... Bb4 8. Qf3 threatening checkmate in one. Again playing ...d5 would be the best move, but once an opponent plays 7... Bb4 it’s most likely they are going to play 8... Qe7.
Play can continue 9. h4! Bxc6 10. bxc3 h5 11. Kf1 Nh6? developing the knight to the only safe square. 12. Bg5! Qf8 13. Re1 threatening Qxh5. At this point, Stockfish 12 says the position is equal. That’s two points worth of compensation!
7...d5 – The Main Line
7... d5 A difficult move to play! Sacrificing a pawn back to help speed up development. 8.Bxd5 c6 The most common move. Kicking the bishop away so that after ...Be7 the b7-pawn is not hanging. 9. Bb3 Be6 10. 0-0 Allowing Black to capture us and preparing an attack in the middle of the board. Bxb3 11. axb3 Bb4 12. Ne4 At this point we are getting some nice play with Ne4, eyeing the d6 and f6 squares.
Over 50% of players here are playing a blunder N8e7 which can be punished with 13. c3 trapping the bishop on b4! Stockfish 12 gives White a +2 advantage.
5... Nc6 Retreat
When the knight retreats to c6 on move five, we get to have fun pushing both central pawns quickly. 5... Nc6 6. d5 Ne5 7. f4 Ng6 8. e5 Ng8 at this point we try to restrict the dark-squared bishop 9. d6 cxd6 10. exd6.
The most popular move here again is a mistake! Qb6 Because the f8-bishop is tied down, players often try to attack the pawn on d6 with the queen in order to fix this issue. It turns out to be a blunder after 11. Nb5!
11... Kd8 – The Best, But Uncomfortable
11... Kd8 Now Black has lost castling rights, and Stockfish 12 rates the position as equal already! The most popular continuation is 12. f5 Ne5 13. Bf4 f6 14. Qd2 with plans to castle queenside.
11... Rb8 – Trying Not To Move The King
11... Rb8 is a big blunder, but it’s a pretty popular reply.
12. Qe2+! Now Black is definitely in trouble and Stockfish 12 rates the position as +5. Now we will try to queenside castle after gaining some extra tempi on the black queen. Kd8 13. Be3 Qa5+ 14. Bd2 Qb6 15. O-O-O.
We can see now that White has a lot of activity for the material, and pretty soon the attack will breakthrough. Stockfish 12 is rating the position as +12 now.
Conclusion
The halloween gambit is truly a dangerous and deadly opening and in this blog of mine i researched about this opening and have made it easier for my viewers to understand in which i precisely explained each move and line. Sorry i couldnt give any games as very rre people play this opening.
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