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The Fascinating King's Gambit

A Repertoire for the 21st Century

215 Seiten, kartoniert, Trafford, 1. Auflage 2004

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This work is probably the first book devoted to investigating the entire Bishop's Gambit. But that is not all! A complete in depth repertoire against black's different ways of declining white's pawn offer is also provided. A great service for those who may want to take up this opening with the white pieces!
The author laboured with the analytical work for nearly two years, aiming to create one of the best theoretical guides to the King's Gambit ever written. - But if he fulfilled this ambition can of course, only be determined by the reader!
What can not be denied is that Johansson shares a multitude of theoretical novelties and insights with his readers. Basically offering them access to an almost unexplored world which until now has been reserved for a relatively small crowd of strong King's Gambiteers.
From the author of The King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor!
Instead of going on and on about the content of this book, let me just quote a very famous King's Gambiteer, grandmaster David Bronstein.
'You want to play the King's Gambit? Well, Black can draw after 3.Nf3. Play 3.Bc4 if you want to win!'


Introduction

As with my previous book on the King's Gambit from 1998 The King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor!, I wrote this book primarily for myself and for the only chess opening I truly love!
My first book leaned on many theoretically important sources and recommended the King's Knight Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3) but unfortunately modern computers soon came up with some strong improvements for black, in the theoretical main line, i.e. the Kieseritzky Gambit. These new ideas are almost certainly the reason why the King's Gambit has almost vanished from grandmaster practise the last few years. Actually, I even abandoned it myself for a short while, but soon found that 1.e4 e5 isn't much fun without 2.f4!?
So I decided to take an in depth look at the Bishop's Gambit, which for some reason has always been considered a poor relative to 3.Nf3, despite that 3.Bc4 is also commonly considered a sounder option! I soon came to realize that quite a lot of the theory on 3.Bc4 is not very reliable, I even got the impression that little worthwhile has been written on it since the 1800s.
Since the BG has far less established theory than the Kieseritzky etc, i will give a very broad coverage of the Bishop's Gambit in the first part of this work. A coverage which, to a very large extent, consists of my own computer assisted analysis of games from the last hundred years of practice, with the occasional reference to relevant books and articles I've encountered.
This work is as far as I know, the only book advocating the Bishop's Gambit, and since it has lived in the shadow of the King's Knight Gambit for such a long time, the main roads of theory are far from fully developed. As you will find when reading, white has many important improvements after just a handful of moves. So be sure to go through the main line alternatives, before deciding which line to play!
The second part of the book deals with the King's Gambit Declined. This will feature an in depth repertoire, plus some important transpositions to the King's Knight Gambit. Most sources on the BG prefer to only mention or recommend independent lines, and even avoid mentioning possible good transpositions to the KNG. However, I see no reason not to transpose if that improves white's chances in my opinion. In short, you will find a lot of analysis and novelties on the following pages!
One might wonder why 3.Bc4 has so far been less popular than 3.Nf3? l've pondered over this and I suppose the following three reasons share the responsibility:
I) Fear of ...Qh4+ since this forces white to move the king. - In fact, this queen check is not bad but it gives rise to complicated and sharp positions where I'm sure white will feel very much at home, once he or she has studied the different lines. Emanuel Lasker even gave 3...d5 4.Bxd5 Qh4+ as the refutation of the Bishop's gambit - but that claim is hardly taken seriously nowadays.
II) Fashion. Almost all books and experts advocate 3.Nf3 over 3.Bc4. But that was in the good old days, when the Kieseritzky resulted in a white advantage.
Nowadays the trend, in the era of Kramnik, is towards more defensive chess since modern computers have shown that black can defend in e.g. the Ruy Lopez. However, I suspect that the same computers will rekindle interest in many sharp openings, especially the King's gambit!
After all, this opening was designed to create tactical chances - something we know computers excel at exploiting!
III) Anonymity, the names of gambits like Kieseritzky, Allgaier, Rosentreter etc, are common knowledge among most chess players, while the lines arising after 3.Bc4 has for some reason stayed nameless.
This is the main reason why I have tried to come up with suitable names for the variations I deal with.
Other reasons include ease of reference and comparisons between variations, and sometimes just to entertain
myself - writing a chess book can be quite boring at times!
How about the pros with 3.Bc4 then?
a) Less established theory, which increase the worth of studying the following pages and trying to improve on it if possible.
b) The option of transposing to 3.Nf3 position when it's beneficial. For example, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 d5 4.Bxd5 Nf6 5.Nf3! Nxd5.6.exd5 Qxd5 7.Nc3, is a very important option in my opinion, resulting in the current main line of the Modern defence, usually arising after 3.Nf3 d5 4.exd5 Nf6 5.Bc4 etc.
c) The BG is easier to learn, since defences with d7-d5 in some form, constitute a large majority of the middle games you will encounter. The number of possible transpositions might be a bit bewildering at first, but I'm sure that you will soon also find them a useful weapon!
Actually, when comparing the KNG and the BG, the only slight drawback of the latter is that 3.Nf3 can sometimes achieve a bigger advantage against some black side lines, thanks to the possibility of playing the more flexible d2-d4 instead of Bc4, while after 3.Bc4 one would usually prefer Nf3 over d4.
However there is at least one important exception, the Duras defence, 3...Nc6 4.d4!? so there are no rules without exceptions! Still, considering the beneflts, for example: 3.Bc4 g5? vs 3.Nf3 g5! that drawback is like comparing an ant to an elephant!
Anyway, I do hope this work will contribute to bringing back the King's Gambit into contemporary practice even among the world's top grandmasters! After all, don't the sun shine brighter and the birds sing prettier when the King's Gambit works?
Thanks to everyone who has supplied me with games during the writing process, most notably Harald Keilhack and my email friend Mike Donnelly. An especially big thanks goes of course to another email friend, Mark Nieuweboer in Suriname who has shown great interest in the whole project and contributed several interesting ideas and opinions during the many months of analytical labour from November 2002 until the present date of completion. And finally I should mention my brother Christer, who has occasionally dragged me away from the board to partake in more social activities...

Thomas Johansson
Malmö, Sweden October 31st 2004.
This work is probably the first book devoted to investigating the entire Bishop's Gambit. But that is not all! A complete in depth repertoire against black's different ways of declining white's pawn offer is also provided. A great service for those who may want to take up this opening with the white pieces!
The author laboured with the analytical work for nearly two years, aiming to create one of the best theoretical guides to the King's Gambit ever written. - But if he fulfilled this ambition can of course, only be determined by the reader!
What can not be denied is that Johansson shares a multitude of theoretical novelties and insights with his readers. Basically offering them access to an almost unexplored world which until now has been reserved for a relatively small crowd of strong King's Gambiteers.
From the author of The King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor!
Instead of going on and on about the content of this book, let me just quote a very famous King's Gambiteer, grandmaster David Bronstein.
'You want to play the King's Gambit? Well, Black can draw after 3.Nf3. Play 3.Bc4 if you want to win!'


Introduction

As with my previous book on the King's Gambit from 1998 The King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor!, I wrote this book primarily for myself and for the only chess opening I truly love!
My first book leaned on many theoretically important sources and recommended the King's Knight Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3) but unfortunately modern computers soon came up with some strong improvements for black, in the theoretical main line, i.e. the Kieseritzky Gambit. These new ideas are almost certainly the reason why the King's Gambit has almost vanished from grandmaster practise the last few years. Actually, I even abandoned it myself for a short while, but soon found that 1.e4 e5 isn't much fun without 2.f4!?
So I decided to take an in depth look at the Bishop's Gambit, which for some reason has always been considered a poor relative to 3.Nf3, despite that 3.Bc4 is also commonly considered a sounder option! I soon came to realize that quite a lot of the theory on 3.Bc4 is not very reliable, I even got the impression that little worthwhile has been written on it since the 1800s.
Since the BG has far less established theory than the Kieseritzky etc, i will give a very broad coverage of the Bishop's Gambit in the first part of this work. A coverage which, to a very large extent, consists of my own computer assisted analysis of games from the last hundred years of practice, with the occasional reference to relevant books and articles I've encountered.
This work is as far as I know, the only book advocating the Bishop's Gambit, and since it has lived in the shadow of the King's Knight Gambit for such a long time, the main roads of theory are far from fully developed. As you will find when reading, white has many important improvements after just a handful of moves. So be sure to go through the main line alternatives, before deciding which line to play!
The second part of the book deals with the King's Gambit Declined. This will feature an in depth repertoire, plus some important transpositions to the King's Knight Gambit. Most sources on the BG prefer to only mention or recommend independent lines, and even avoid mentioning possible good transpositions to the KNG. However, I see no reason not to transpose if that improves white's chances in my opinion. In short, you will find a lot of analysis and novelties on the following pages!
One might wonder why 3.Bc4 has so far been less popular than 3.Nf3? l've pondered over this and I suppose the following three reasons share the responsibility:
I) Fear of ...Qh4+ since this forces white to move the king. - In fact, this queen check is not bad but it gives rise to complicated and sharp positions where I'm sure white will feel very much at home, once he or she has studied the different lines. Emanuel Lasker even gave 3...d5 4.Bxd5 Qh4+ as the refutation of the Bishop's gambit - but that claim is hardly taken seriously nowadays.
II) Fashion. Almost all books and experts advocate 3.Nf3 over 3.Bc4. But that was in the good old days, when the Kieseritzky resulted in a white advantage.
Nowadays the trend, in the era of Kramnik, is towards more defensive chess since modern computers have shown that black can defend in e.g. the Ruy Lopez. However, I suspect that the same computers will rekindle interest in many sharp openings, especially the King's gambit!
After all, this opening was designed to create tactical chances - something we know computers excel at exploiting!
III) Anonymity, the names of gambits like Kieseritzky, Allgaier, Rosentreter etc, are common knowledge among most chess players, while the lines arising after 3.Bc4 has for some reason stayed nameless.
This is the main reason why I have tried to come up with suitable names for the variations I deal with.
Other reasons include ease of reference and comparisons between variations, and sometimes just to entertain
myself - writing a chess book can be quite boring at times!
How about the pros with 3.Bc4 then?
a) Less established theory, which increase the worth of studying the following pages and trying to improve on it if possible.
b) The option of transposing to 3.Nf3 position when it's beneficial. For example, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 d5 4.Bxd5 Nf6 5.Nf3! Nxd5.6.exd5 Qxd5 7.Nc3, is a very important option in my opinion, resulting in the current main line of the Modern defence, usually arising after 3.Nf3 d5 4.exd5 Nf6 5.Bc4 etc.
c) The BG is easier to learn, since defences with d7-d5 in some form, constitute a large majority of the middle games you will encounter. The number of possible transpositions might be a bit bewildering at first, but I'm sure that you will soon also find them a useful weapon!
Actually, when comparing the KNG and the BG, the only slight drawback of the latter is that 3.Nf3 can sometimes achieve a bigger advantage against some black side lines, thanks to the possibility of playing the more flexible d2-d4 instead of Bc4, while after 3.Bc4 one would usually prefer Nf3 over d4.
However there is at least one important exception, the Duras defence, 3...Nc6 4.d4!? so there are no rules without exceptions! Still, considering the beneflts, for example: 3.Bc4 g5? vs 3.Nf3 g5! that drawback is like comparing an ant to an elephant!
Anyway, I do hope this work will contribute to bringing back the King's Gambit into contemporary practice even among the world's top grandmasters! After all, don't the sun shine brighter and the birds sing prettier when the King's Gambit works?
Thanks to everyone who has supplied me with games during the writing process, most notably Harald Keilhack and my email friend Mike Donnelly. An especially big thanks goes of course to another email friend, Mark Nieuweboer in Suriname who has shown great interest in the whole project and contributed several interesting ideas and opinions during the many months of analytical labour from November 2002 until the present date of completion. And finally I should mention my brother Christer, who has occasionally dragged me away from the board to partake in more social activities...

Thomas Johansson
Malmö, Sweden October 31st 2004.
Weitere Informationen
EAN 9781412046473
Gewicht 600 g
Hersteller Trafford
Breite 20,7 cm
Höhe 27,2 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
Autor Thomas Johansson
Sprache Englisch
Auflage 1
ISBN-10 1412046475
ISBN-13 9781412046473
Seiten 215
Einband kartoniert
004 Sources
005 Symbols
006 Content
007 lntroduction
009 Things To Keep In Mind

King's Gambit Accepted - The Bishop's Gambit The jaenisch Bogoljubov Defence

011 Chapter 1: The Scarecrow
015 Chapter 2: Dangerous Deviations
018 Chapter 3: Westerinen Gambit
027 Chapter 4: The Present Main Line I
032 Chapter 5: The Present Main Line II
034 Chapter 6: The Present Main Line III
046 Chapter 7: The Silversurfer Gambit
059 Chapter 8: The Past
062 Chapter 9: The Spanish Connection

Other Defences

067 Chapter 10: The Steinitz Sokolov Defence
069 Chapter 11: Simply Modern
084 Chapter 12: The Queen Checks I
086 Chapter 13: The Queen Checks II
088 Chapter 14: The Queen Checks III
093 Chapter 15: The Queen Checks IV
096 Chapter 16: The Queen Checks V
098 Chapter 17: The Nordic Counter Gambit
106 Chapter 18: Duras Defence
114 Chapter 19: The Bad Defence
118 Chapter 20: 3.. .d6 without 4.Qh4+
120 Chapter 21: 3...h6 without Qh4+
122 Chapter 22: Cunningham Connection

The Kings Gambit Declined

125 Chapter 23: Tricky Transposers
132 Chapter 24: Greco Counter Gambit
133 Chapter 25: Falkbeer Counter Gambit
149 Chapter 26: Nimzowitsch Counter Gambit
155 Chapter 27: The Modern Revisited
162 Chapter 28: The Adelaide Counter Gambit
169 Chapter 29: Keene Defence
177 Chapter 30: Nordwalder Defence
181 Chapter 31: The Classical Defence

215 Index
In Sachen Königsgambit gibt es zweierlei zu beklagen: Boris Spasski spielt es nicht mehr. „Ich habe noch nie eine Partie damit verloren und diesen Rekord möchte ich behalten”, erklärte der ehemalige Weltmeister auf die Frage bei den Chess Classic Mainz, ob er jemals wieder ein Königsgambit wage. Das ist der eine Jammer. Der andere ist der Mangel an exzellenten Büchern darüber. In den 80ern gab es zuletzt Stefan Bücker, der innovative Werke wie „Das neue Königsgambit” verfasste. Danach folgte noch „Das Königsgambit für den erfindungsreichen Angriffsspieler!” aus dem Schachverlag Kania anno 1998. Das Buch des Schweden stellte das unverständlicherweise mehr gepriesene Königsgambit-Werk von Großmeister Joseph Gallagher klar in den Schatten. Es war innovativer im Geiste Bückers, mehr Eigenarbeit steckte darin und in Untervarianten wird man nicht von Fortsetzungen überrascht, die bei Gallagher das vermeintliche Hauptabspiel häufig in Frage stellten.
Endlich legt Johansson nach. Diesmal nur in Englisch, nachdem sein Königsgambit-Erstling beim Schachverlag Kania auch in den Textanmerkungen die Weltsprache neben deutsch beinhaltete. Außerdem baut der 35-Jährige nun auf 3.Lc4, weil seiner Ansicht nach einige Varianten mit Hilfe von Computern widerlegt worden seien. Deshalb schrieb Johansson das erste Buch, das den Läuferzug zum Hauptthema erhebt. Auch wenn man selbst 3.Sf3 noch lange nicht am Ende sieht, verspricht „The Fascinating King’s Gambit” ein faszinierendes Buch und beeindruckt auf 215 Seiten. Der Autor hat nicht nur emsig Partien gesammelt und diese fleißig zusammengeschustert. Bei dem im kanadischen Trafford Verlag erschienenen Werk merkt der Leser schnell, dass der Schwede mit der Eröffnung sympathisiert („Die einzige Eröffnung, die ich wirklich liebe!” steht auch schon im Vorwort) und nach vorteilhaften Pfaden für Weiß forscht - Objektivität aber dennoch zu wahren sucht. Der Feuerseifer Johanssons beschränkt sich bei der Analyse nicht nur auf bekanntes Datenbank-Material, sondern auch unbekanntere Partien werden einbezogen. Studienmaterial liefert beispielsweise Alexander Morosewitsch und sei es nur in Blitzpartien auf dem ICC-Server. Auch ansonsten nimmt sich der Spieler mit einer Elo-Zahl von knapp über 2200 viel Zeit für ungewöhnliche Abspiele, die durchaus dem Anziehenden zum Erfolg verhelfen können.
Trotz einer Vielzahl von Varianten und Analysen bleibt die Übersicht auf den großformatigen Seiten gewahrt. Diagramme und Fettdruck lassen den Leser nicht gänzlich ersticken im Variantengestrüpp. Kleinere Fehler (etwa auf Seite 150 der fehlende Fettdruck des Hauptzuges, der wie eine Untervariante wirkt) sind wohl unvermeidlich bei derlei Materialfülle, halten sich aber in Grenzen. Die grandiosen Partien und Abspiele entschädigen allemal. Nutzen aus dem Buch über Königsgambit mit 3.Lc4 kann auch durchaus der 3.Sf3-Befürworter ziehen: Ab Kapitel 23 und damit auf 90 Seiten geht es um Fortsetzungen, die ebenso die Traditionalisten betreffen: Lc4 bleibt im Abgelehnten Königsgambit natürlich im dritten Zug außen vor. Die Erläuterungen in dem Buch sind ansprechend. Besonders gefällt die Übersicht auf den ersten Seiten, die dem Leser die Dinge einprägen, die er als Weißer oder Schwarzer im Königsgambit immer im Hinterkopf haben sollte. „The Fascinating King’s Gambit” ist für jeden Schachspieler eine Freude, der es schätzt, wenn das Brett bereits nach wenigen Zügen in Flammen steht.
Ein besonders eindruckvolles Königsgambit-Beispiel gelang dem Franzosen Luc Devocelle - wohlgemerkt noch zu Zeiten, als Fernschach-Partien ohne Schachprogramme gewonnen wurden! Devocelle war auch einer der Teilnehmer des Metz-Angriff-Thematurniers, das der Weltfernschachbund ICCF ausrichtete. Dabei bewies der Gallier auch sein großes Königsgambit-Verständnis mit einem vorderen Platz im Finale.

Devocelle,Luc (FRA) - Schmitz,B [C33]
ICCF World Cup8-9 prel-092 corr, 1990 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Lc4 g5?! 4.h4 d5!? 5.exd5! g4 6.d4 Ld6 7.Sc3 Lf5 8.Sge2 De7 9.0-0 f3 10.Lg5!! fxe2 11.Lxe2 Dd7 12.Lb5 c6 13.De2+ Kf8 14.dxc6 bxc6 15.Lc4 Lg6 16.Le6 De8 17.Dc4 Kg7 18.Tae1 fxe6 19.Txe6 Lf7 20.d5! Lxe6 21.Dd4+ Kg6 22.Tf6+ Kh5 23.Txe6 Df8 24.Se4 1-0

Robert Miklos, Rochade Kuppenheim
www.RochadeKuppenheim.de