The Goring Gambit

The Goring Gambit

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The Goring Gambit



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The original I saw in a magazine was this

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Did you spot my, er, deliberate error last week. I used the wrong diagram for the puzzle.

It’s quite funny how it came about and I’m going to give you a peek into the mixed
up mind of someone who has been reading chess books and magazine for 60 years.

I was thinking of using it for the class I teach but I could not recall the exact position.

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I then started setting up random positions close to what I could remember about it.
I remembered I saw it in a magazine and I was recalling Korchnoi, Courtney and Kite!
So knowing that Hugh Courtney wrote for CHESS I went though my 300 odd copies.

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CHESS magazine, December 1983. Korchnoi shaking hands with Kasparov.
That is it. Korchnoi on the cover. Inside Hugh Courtney said the puzzle looked like
someone has been flying a kite. (fancy having those three linked in a memory pattern.)


White to play and mate in four. I posted a diagram I had been working on. (idiot.)
1. Re6+ Kxc7 2. Nd5+ {If now 2...Kd8 3. Kh1 Kc8 4,Re8 mate.} 2... Kb8 3. Ra6 Kc8 4. Ra8


I do not know who composed this weeks puzzle but is it the correct diagram!


White to play and checkmate in three moves. (answer at the bottom)
green pawns

Whilst flicking through all my CHESS magazine I did stop every now and then
and was sidetracked because of something interesting. This game is was of them.

R.. Hall - G. Lamb, Wolverhampton 1969


So let us look at the Goring Gambit and the other 4th move options instead of 4...dxc3.

First the Red Hot Pawns stats and I’ll use games 25 moves and under because
that usually catches all the opening disasters and a lack of theoretical knowledge.

4...dxc3 White wins 515 draws 3 Black wins 173
4...d5 White wins 57 draws 4 Black wins 56
4...Nf6 White wins 315 draws 9 Black wins 260

The low number of draws is because I used games finishing on or under move 25.

Taking the gambit pawn 4...dxc3 gives White a huge plus. Amazingly close with 4...d5.
And 4...Nf6, a more popular choice than 4...d5 scores better than the reply 3...dxc3.
We have seen 4...dxc3 now we look at a couple of RHP games with 4...d5 and 4...Nf6

diedjee - Walshie RHP 2006 (This ends with an alert tactical trick.)


Last game and we look at 4....Nf6 which is a fighters choice.

hongili - pizzano RHP 2012



solution

The Unknown Composer mate. (I’ll find out)



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