Blumenfeld Gambit

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The basic position of the Blumenfeld gambit after 4.… b7 – b5

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The Blumenfeld Gambit is an opening of the chess game . It was named after the Russian chess master Benjamin Markowitsch Blumenfeld . The Blumenfeld Gambit is one of the closed games and is classified in the ECO codes under the key E10. It emerges from the Indian defense .

Each of its main variants begins with the trains:

1. d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2. c2-c4 e7-e6 3. Ng1-f3 c7-c5 4. d4-d5 b7-b5

history

The Blumenfeld Gambit was introduced into international tournament practice in 1922 by the later world chess champion Alexander Alekhine , who adapted it from the Russian master player Blumenfeld. In the master tournament in Piešťany (then Bad Pistyan), he defeated the German master player Siegbert Tarrasch with the gambit in a game that was awarded the beauty prize. The opening was then used by other master players such as Savielly Tartakower , Rudolf Spielmann and Efim Bogoljubow .

In the second half of the 20th century, the Blumenfeld Gambit was not or hardly to be found at world class level. Alekhine himself wrote in his comments on the game against Tarrasch that "accepting the gambit [...] gives Black a brilliant position in the center ". Alekhine said that 5. Bc1 – g5 was the right move. In the last few years the Blumenfeld gambit has become more popular again and White is now using 5. cxb5 more often because after 5. Bg5 exd5 a Benoni-like position arises without any major problems for Black.

Opening ideas

Alekhine's assessment is based on the resulting position if the white player continues with 5. dxe6 fxe6 6. cxb5. After d7 – d5 black controls the middle and has free piece play. Sooner or later White tries to break this center again with e2 – e4, sometimes with the return of the pawn.

swell

  1. ↑ Blumenfeld Gambit with theory table including games, accessed on June 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Alexander Alekhine: My best games 1908–1923. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1983, p. 145.

literature

  • Jerzy Konikowski , Jan Przewoznik: Blumenfeld Gambit. Ed. Mädler im Rau-Verl., Düsseldorf 1991. 98 pages, ISBN 3-7919-0328-4 .
  • Max Euwe : Theory of Chess Openings. Engelhardt, Berlin-Frohnau 1965, 139 pp. Part: 6. Budapest Gambit, Blumenfeld Gambit, Various Indian Systems, Catalan, The Benoni Defense, Dutch, King's Fianchetto, other semi-closed games.