Nordic gambit
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The Nordic Gambit after 4. Bf1 – c4
The Nordic Gambit is an opening of the chess game and is one of the open games . In the older chess literature it was also called the Danish Gambit , corresponding to the English name ( Danish Gambit ). It is classified in the ECO codes under the key C21.
The Nordic Gambit begins with the moves (see also chess notation ):
- 1. e2 – e4 e7 – e5
- 2. d2 – d4 e5xd4 (after 3. Qd1xd4 the game would now change to the so-called middle gambit )
- 3. c2-c3
Black now has the choice of rejecting the gambit using 3.… d7 – d5 or taking the pawn:
- 3.… d4xc3
- 4. Bf1 – c4 c3xb2 (4. Nb1xc3 corresponds to the Göring gambit )
- 5. Bxb2
The idea for this opening came from the three Copenhagen players Orla Herman Krause, Vilhelm Nielsen and Arne Sörensen. It consists in the fact that the double gambit enables White to develop figures quickly and to open, central lines for his heavy figures . The bishops are also very well positioned and put pressure on the weak points f7 and g7.
Black, on the other hand, has won two pawns and, according to many authors, can equalize if defended correctly. Therefore, the Nordic Gambit is hardly widespread in the world's top today. Ingo Firnhaber , author of two books on the Nordic Gambit, is of the opinion today that at least in correspondence chess, with today's support from strong engines , Black can maintain his material advantage.
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Position after 7. Bd5xf7 +
A compensation variant that is very common today was played for the first time in 1914 in the Baden-Baden tournament by Richard Réti and Savielly Tartakower . The main idea is the sacrifice of the two extra pawns, initiated by the move d7 – d5 found by Carl Schlechter .
The game Nyholm - Tartakower went as follows:
- 5.… d7 – d5! (Réti played against Nyholm and Opocensky d7 – d5 already in the fourth move, only afterwards c3xb2)
- 6. Bc4xd5 Ng8 – f6!
- 7. Bd5xf7 + (see diagram) Ke8xf7
- 8. Qd1xd8 Bf8-b4 +
- 9. Qd8-d2 Bb4xd2 +
- 10. Nb1xd2
As a result of the two-sided “queen sacrifice” or return sacrifice, a complicated, balanced endgame arises that is shaped by the pawn structure and is ultimately viewed as an unsatisfactory opening result for White.
An alternative for White is the risky 7. Nb1 – c3, after which Black has to continue to play very carefully.
literature
- Ingo Firnhaber : Nordic Gambit . Rau, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7919-0303-9 .
- Ingo Firnhaber: Rejected Nordic Gambit . Kiel 1993.
- The Nordic Gambit in Boris Alterman : The Alterman Gambit Handbook - Gambits with White . Quality Chess, Glasgow 2010, pp. 9-46.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingo Firnhaber's homepage
- ^ Alterman, p. 38.
- ↑ Aleksei Suetin: Textbook of the chess theory , Sportverlag Berlin 1975, p. 9.
- ↑ Simon Williams : Spicy Gambits: The Danish Gambit!
- ^ Alterman, p. 40.