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The Fraser Variation of the Latvian gambit has been a sound opening for a few hundered years - Ive stuided the lines and have a good idea what Im doing,
Many gambits have been rigously tested by chess engines, numerous grand masters and in correspondance tournaments.
As to other sacrafice - such as my two knights for a pawn and a rook - that was intuative - I knew that by drawing the king out of the castle there would be mating threats
Much like: "Kasparov's Immortal" @http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478
(im not comparing myself to kasparov - im far better)
On the 24th move a rook is exchanged for a pawn just to draw the black king up the board and create mating threats - by creating these threats Kasparov manages to win his material and more back!
Id also look up Tals games - he had a lot of positional sacs that might help you
I hope this does help frrixz
Thanks. Yes, that game is very ... inspiring. I still don't see myself making such bold moves in the near future though.
JMB2010 wrote:
James_Bond_Fan wrote:
A blitz game I played this afternoon against the chess.com machine. I won
35 moves as a miniature?
Oh yes you are right, sorry. Wrong showcase :-)
CommieBDav94 wrote:
35 moves in a miniture when your compensating for somthing :p
anyway here is my 2nd ever game in the latvian gambit
can you please amphasize what you mean by that "compensating for something :p"
@frrixz thats some nice games, effective use of the kings gambit :) and an instructive game showing why you shouldnt bring your queen out too soon
and @james bond - "joking"? anyway i read somewhere that 25 moves is a miniture... looks like 1 or 2 of my games might have ta go
hopefully this should be a miniature without compensation
Does this next game count as a miniature?
wow you destroyed the french defence there
I hope this isn't too long either.
I read somewhere that a miniature is 25 moves or less.
After 11...f6??, you can play Bxg6+ right away since your knight on e5 covers d7.
11...f6?? - 12. Bxg6+, Bf7 - 13. Bxf7#
@hess fisher played bc4 in the kings gambit you can get a few tempos on the queen that way :)
-waller- wrote:
I read somewhere that a miniature is 25 moves or less.
Didn't know there was an exact number. Now I know.
Oct 15, 2011
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In this game, my opponent played quite inaccurately, but I love the mating net at the end:
35 moves in a miniture when your compensating for somthing :p
anyway here is my 2nd ever game in the latvian gambit