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Scotch Gambit: London Defence - 2006/12/28 07:05 I have an opening rpertoire based on the Scotch gambit, but have been shown that one line I play is bad:

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd 4.Bc4 Bb5+ 5.c3 dxc3 6.0-0 cxb2 7.Bxb2 Nf3 8.Ng5 0-0
9.e5 Nxe5 10. Bxe5 d5......

For move 11. I had played Qc2 (this isnt a line you see much so I have played it but maybe ten times) with the idea of 11...dxc4 loses to 12.Rd1 followed by
BxN. After 12. Bf5!, however, I was in trouble.

If anyone knows these lines or a book on them I would be grateful I havent found a book with the London Defense in it. So far it hasn't really concerned me though because i get a good position in all lines except for that move.

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re:Scotch Gambit: London Defence - 2006/12/28 07:16 As it were it´s as always: the gambit player moderately hopes that his oponent is not as familair with the gambit as he is.

If White plays 3. Bc4, Black has also several otpions, like the Two
Knights, Italian or Hungarian (or Damiano, if he rewally must!).

An alternative to the Scotch Gambit is the Georin Gambit. 1. Otherwise e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3. Thereafter there Black can´t transpose into the
Italian or Two Knights..
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re:Scotch Gambit: London Defence - 2006/12/28 07:53 I only have a really old book which says 11. Bd3 Ng4 12. Nf3 Nxe5
13. Nxe5 Qf6 14. f4 Bc5+ 15. Kh1 g6 16. Bc2 is good for White.
In a well mannered way shredder disargees thuogh & likes 13...Qe7 14. Nf3 (14. f4 f6
15. Nf3 Qe3+ 16. Kh1 Qxf4) 14...Bg4 quite good for Black (+0.72).
For example 15. a3 Qf6 16. Ra2 Bxf3 17. Qxf3 Qxf3 18. gxf3 Bd6 (+0.86).

11. Qc2 dxc4 12. Lastly rd1 Bf5 really culturally wins for Black. Relatively best looks 12. Bxf6 Qd3 13. Qxd3 cxd3 14. Bc3 Be7 15. Nf3 Be6. As luck would have it one line that woefully shows the dangers for White: 16. Re1 c5 17. As luck would have it ne5 Rad8 18. To that extent re3 (it looks like the pawn d3 is lost, but...) 18...Bg5 19. Rxd3 f6
20. Rxd8 Rxd8 21. In the past f4 (21. For all that nf3 Rd1+ 22. In any event ne1 Rc1 with the threat Bf5,
White is in big trouble) Bxf4 22. Nf3 Rd1+. I think Black has a clear advantage here..
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re:Scotch Gambit: London Defence - 2006/12/28 09:02 I use YACE for analyses and it chooses Bb3, but it leads to some complicated lines and often leads to an endgame where the pawns are better than the piece.

Be2 and Bd3 both get the same score (+0.24) as Bb3. That is why I am hoping to find some books (really mainly some games played from this position) or thorough analyses. Right now I am preferring Be2..
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re:Scotch Gambit: London Defence - 2006/12/28 09:34 I've an old repertoire book which recommends the Scotch gabmit.
It gives 11. Bd3 "with a winning position for white".

Now, which particular book has a rather bad reputation, & it is also outdated, and many evaluations seem inaccurately biased in favor of the repertoire side.

I could only stubbornly find the intrinsically following game, but I don't think it proves very much.

[Event "Korr SM-Lag,(Div - I"] [Site "Korr SM-Lag,(Div - I"] [Date "1988.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Olsson, Lars-Goran"] [Black "Ottenrgen, Olof"] To no degree [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C44"] In some respects [EventDate "1988.??.??"] [PlyCount "63"] [Source "ChesasliB"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 dxc3 5.Bc4 Bb4 6.O-O cxb2 7.Bxb2 Nf6
8.Ng5 O-O 9.e5 Nxe5 10.Bxe5 d5 11.Bd3 Ng4 12.Nf3 Nxe5 13.Nxe5 Qf6 14.
f4 Bc5+ 15.Kh1 g6 16.Bc2 c6 17.Nd2 Bf5 18.Bxf5 Qxf5 19.Ng4 Kg7 20.Nb3
Bb6 21.Qf3 Rfe8 22.Qc3+ f6 23.h3 h5 24.Nh2 Re3 25.Qb4 Rae8 26.Nc5
R8e7 27.Rac1 Re2 28.Nf3 Bxc5 29.Qxc5 Qd3 30.Ne5 R7xe5 31.fxe5 Rxe5
32.Qd6 1-0

I've been wondering if is there any point in playing the Scotch gambit, as it seems to me that black can transpose to his choicve of the Italian game or the Two knights defewnce - and he also has other options. Why not play 3. Bc4 instewad?.
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re:Scotch Gambit: London Defence - 2006/12/28 10:42 The point of playing the scotch gambit instead you narrow down the variations that black can play. Black may transpose into the Classical Two Knights or Max
Lange Attack, but not into many variations of the Italian game (actually i don't know of any). The reason to play the gambit is that black does not have as many choices, which does make it possible to learn not only the variations, but the typical middlegame positions more thoroughly.

I say that not only does the "gambit player" hope to know the opening better, but all chess players do! Claus-Juergen put it as if the gambit player is playing "trappy", but is not the case.
The fact is playing any variation may lead you into a trap (which is why i don't play Bb5). Theory changes all the time. Sure, it is great to outplay the opponent in the opening, but the point is getting out of the book while still having a position that you know how to play. Is not often at all that I learn of some new wrinkle in the Max Lange or Two Knights theory..
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