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Halloween Gambit

Halloween Gambit

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yes, poor play by him..

But the Nc6 variation should player with d5, and f4, then e5 and d6 and not e5 and Bc4, that is good in the Ng6 variation.

How did you win this ?

Did you look at the game I posted ? you can always see them as if you are going to play the halloween


http://www.chessville.com/UCO/Halloween_Gambit/UON13HalloweenGambit.pdf. maybe usefull.


And don't forget.


http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/tour/breeze.htm
On which the autour present maybe beautifull, you need to know, not too shaby, a good lot of theory...

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its a brilliant opening ... happy halloween 🙂

but alas flawed ... but in blitz it's great fun, there was a guy at this club i played in who quickly spotted how to refute it ...i put it through cm8000 .. let it run all night n alas the sod was right ...

found this a while back if it helps
http://www.jakob.at/steffen/halloween/index.html

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There is no refutation of the halloween gambit yet, but I agree to say that in some lines, white is having a hard to fight, he is struggling, but he is not lost, with pecise play, he can live trought.

The Nc6 lines are drawish and Ng6 are not, in the later, white must exchange pawns to attack black king, he have good chance.


Sorry, but no refutation yet.

Show us what he play....

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Originally posted by AudreyxSophie
Hi green pawn..


I will present you some wins. In this treat, I did not lost while playing it, as i was really booked

The first one...

[pgn]
[Event "Open invite"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2009.09.01"]
[EndDate "2009.09.04"]
[Round "?"]
[White "AudreyxSophie"]
[Black "DaneBrankle"]
[WhiteRating "1718"]
[BlackRating "1 later.
Hi Audrey ... this is what he played ... not my invention...I put this through my computer a few times and black seems to have enough space to defend. The book in cm8000 recommends d6, not d5 but this seems to loose a few moves later.... i think black has to give up a pawn to get out of trouble... also have seen after e5, black replying with Bb4 , after
e5xNf6 BXN+,
b2xBc3 QXf6
forgive my notation, black looks ok...

feel like I'm spoiling the fun publishing this 🙁 If its wrong please say .. can go back and try again!

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Hi.


I can tell you I know the variation you are talking about.


I can tell you that d6 is considered as the main line in the Ng6 variation.

but the variation with d5. do not be scared. just take that pawn and show him a real pawn storm. If he follow with Bb4, Qf3 make him not so good, now black need a compensation, because he is down in material

Normally, it should be okay for white.

it is not the most fearfull variation.

You have a pawn storm with ... d5.

Let me show you a game, with that variation.




Black can't avoid mate... He is done.


That Qe1 move was attack the poor knight, who could not move anymore, winning it.

This is a pawn storm.

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c'est bonne Audrey!

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I hate started more hallowwen gambit game, and just won 2 out of 15, it seem no black is really winning is these lines.

two tohers play the lines 6... bb4 after nc6, forcing white to play d4 then d5. but the endgame look good for me.

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bump

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Someone needs to make up a "Trick or Treat" defense that will bust it. 😛

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Originally posted by RabbitCold
Someone needs to make up a "Trick or Treat" defense that will bust it. 😛
Originally posted by greenpawn34
Black can play the 'Trick or Treat' defence and the best White has
is an exchange French Defence with two Knight already off.

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but this won't make us stop playing the halloween gambit, I unless the ending is clearly bad, we will play it,