Queen's Gambit Accepted

Originally posted by The Swine Down Hope
Hi,

In a QGA game as white i've struggled in winning the pawn back if black is determined to keep it:

Does anyone have some good example of rhp games where the Gambit was accepted and black put up a great fight to hold on to the material advantage (but generally ultimately failing)?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

There are two types of gambits. "psuedo" and "pure". With a psuedo gambit the pawn is only temporarly lost and can always be regained with force. With a pure gambit, the pawn is given up for positional compensation. (this can come in many forms but I assume u proberly know about that)

The QG can be either. Its totally up to white. here's an example of a pseudo gambit where white can enforce the regathering (there are others but this one I know very well so its the only one I would be inclined to explain.) Game 2187346 There are lots of different ways black can try to refute this but none of them work as long as white makes the correct moves. Unfortunatly it takes alot of practice and study to memorize all the moves.

Main points - after the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 (if any other move black can play the strong counter gambit ...e5) ...b5 4.d3(d4 is a pure gambit) ...a6 or ...c6 The idea for white is to use his a and b pawns as a minority attack against blacks pawns, that will inevitibly lead to black having weak pawns that are undefendable and white can scoop up at his (her) leisure.

Like I said the problem is it takes ages to memorize how to refute all the different tries black has. But once You do you will find this a very useful club level weapon.

Another thing you have to contend with is tranposition. Black may choose not to capture the pawn right away and thus you can get led into a position where the theme I have outlined is no longer possible. So I suggest you study the opening in depth And gain alot of experience before you play it in any serious OTB game. correspondense chess is the ideal medium to so this.

Good luck with it . This opening caused me frequent pain for quite a few years. (and still does occasionally) (sorry if Ive sounded condesending, but I've tried to make this imformative for lower rated players as well.)

edits: Had a hassle trying to make the link. For some reason there was a space between the last number and the bracket .

Originally posted by NZDrifter
(sorry if Ive sounded condesending, but I've tried to make this imformative for lower rated players as well.)

Not at all.

Thanks to all.