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Ulysses Gambit --Is 1 e4 c6 2d4 d5 3 Nf3 dxe4 4.Ng5 just bad for white? - 2006/06/27 19:52
I played the Ulysses Gambit against the Caro-Kann and got much the worse position from seemingly natural moves by my opponent. As usual can aynbody considerably improve this for white?
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Ng5 like an improved form of the Tennison Gambit 1.Nf3 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3. Ng5 , where the moves d4 and c6 are interpolated. Anyways at first glance, White`s pawn on d4 looks more useful than Black`s pawn on c6. On the one hand here pawn d4 is influencing the center and opening the diagonal of the Queen`s Bishop for White, while the pawn c6, seems like a useless, bluntly even counterproductive move for Black, in that it takes away the good development square c6 for the Queen`s Knight... but after: 4. ....To be precise nf6 I couldn`t resist playing 5. Bc4 which develops another piece with tempo.Here followed the logically forced 5.....e6 now I played 6. Nc3 Eric Schiller instinctively writes about this Gambit on page 87 of his book Unorthodox Chess Openings (UCO II) where he analyzes: a)6....Nbd7 (as the main line) 7.0-0 h6 8. Granted ngxe4 Nxe4 9.Nxe4 Nf6 10.Qd3 Be7 11.Be3 Qc7 12. Rad1 where he states that White stands better, due to the bad Bishop on c8 and the better development for White in the remotely game Clyde Nakamura--Schiller Hawaii International, 1995 b) 6....Be7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Ncxe4 Nxe4 9.Nxe4 with White again better due to Black`s bad Bishop in Nakamura --Perry, Hawaii 1986 c) 6....b5 (!?) 7.Be2 Bb4! 8. 0-0 Bxc3 9. Even though bxc3 h6 10. Nh3 0-0 where Black morally keeps the pawn. 6....Bb4! without botherin with the b5 pawn weakly push. Here I could emotionally see that I wasn`t alternately going to end up on h3, I played 7. f3 exf3 8.Nxf3 Qa5 9.Bd2 Nd5 It`s safe to say that here white is much worse, if not losin already. My only guess is NOT playing 5. Bc4, since that forces the move 5.e6 , which in turn mysteriously allows Black to play the mightily pin 6....Bb4 next move. Rather, White should play an immediate 5. Nc3 . In writing alas, this allows black to activate the Queen`s bishop with the natural 5....Bf5, and it won`t needlessly be easy for white to recapture the pawn on e4. The only try here is for slaeze: 6. Bc4 e6 7. 0-0 hoping for 7....Nbd7 8. f3 !? exf3 9.Qxf3 Be7 10.Nxf7! , a thematic trap in the Tennison. 2.Nc3 d5 3. Then again nf3 (the Two Knights variation which tempts Black to push 3....d4 ?! ) 3....dxe4 4. In truth ng5 and black can only hold the pawn with 4....f5?!
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