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| Aug-28-04 | | knightthree: love the evans gambit. morphy was a expert on this move. any coments.. |
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| Sep-30-04 | | Knight13: I love Evan's Gambit followed by 6. d4. |
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| Sep-30-04 | | Kean: 6.d4 was precisely what Morphy played against Anderssen. Personally against the evans I play either 4..Bb6 or 5..Be7 but declining the gambit seems to be better. |
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Oct-01-04
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: I used to play the Evans in speed chess with a friend who thought it was unsound. At the end of several months of five minute chess in the 5...Be7, we totaled the results. White wins: 50%
Black wins: 50%
Draws: 0%
Sounds like the Evans, doesn't it? |
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Oct-01-04
 | | cu8sfan: <An Englishman> So you only played two games, right? (-: |
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| Oct-01-04 | | Kean: Its maybe unsound but theres a lot of relativity in chess, besides its a delightful opening, and for blitz still better |
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| Oct-01-04 | | Dee Jay: It's definately sound....if white plays correctly. |
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| Jan-12-05 | | sergeidave: Is there any games by the player to whom this opening refers? |
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Jan-12-05
 | | tpstar: <sergeidave> Captain Evans vs MacDonnell, 1826 |
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| Jan-12-05 | | lronTigran: There are many ways to equality, declining the gambit may be the easiest. The only reason why White has a 52% win percentage and black has 32% is because no one playes it anymore, so the results are from when solutions weren't yet found for black. |
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Mar-12-05
 | | beatgiant: What's the difference between C51 and C52? There's a lot more kibitzing on the Evans on the following page:
Evans Gambit (C51) |
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| Jul-21-05 | | vampiero: c51 is the variation of the evans where black makes other moves in the evans after b4, such as declining the gambit, or after he accepts it, Bxb4 c3, the bishop moves to a different square than a5 |
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May-03-06
 | | Annie K.: Just want to show off an amusing blitz foray (I rarely play it) into the Evans: :) [Date "2006.04.05"]
[White "Annie K."]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "600"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O d6 7. d4 exd4 8. cxd4 Nge7 9. Ng5 O-O 10. Qh5 h6 11. Bxf7+ Rxf7 12. Qxf7+ Kh8 13. Qh5 Qf8 14. f4 Nd8 15. Bb2 Be6 16. d5 Bf7 17. Qxh6+ 1-0 Of course Black's play was very far from optimal. :s After 15...Be6?? I had to choose whether to just pick up the gift Ba5 with Nxe6, or go after the King as intended; and decided the latter was more fun. ;p |
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| Jun-12-06 | | Knight13: I don't think this is a bad way to play the Evans: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 d6 
click for larger view Black doesn't get crushed too easily. |
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| Jun-12-06 | | Bartleby: <Knight13> You would not be the first. Insert a couple of moves in here: 7. O-O Bb6 and we arrive at the notorious Lasker's Defence of the Evans Gambit (a position usually reached via the 5. ... Bc5 line). It was regarded in the late 19th century as the soundest way to defeat the Evans. Lasker himself recommended it in 1895, James Mason ensorsed the recommendation, and Lasker's thoughts were printed later in his primer "Common Sense in Chess." The funny thing is that in Morphy's day, the Lasker's Defence was already well-known but it had a poor reputation. Staunton and Morphy himself considered it plainly advantageous for White. It took a reappraisal from Lasker forty years later to reverse this opinion. The verdict is still out on whether it's the "best" defense to the Evans, however, back then it certainly worked advantageously to cripple the openings effectiveness in tournament praxis. It performed horribly at St. Petersburg 1896 (Chigorin won the *only* Evans game on the white side), and since then, what was once the Queen of all openings is now more the Cinderella, occassionally let out of the house on a borrowed horse, carriage, and dress made of magic dust to work its old magic before returning to her dusty closet of past glories. |
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| Jun-27-06 | | LluviaSean: Evan's Gambit to me is complicated... First of all, I don't understand why Black does not take the c3 pawn after <7. 0-0>? |
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Jun-27-06
 | | keypusher: <LluviaSean> He does, it's called the Compromised Defense: Opening Explorer It's considered very risky for Black; on the other hand, two pawns are two pawns! Chigorin was willing to play it. |
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| Jun-28-06 | | Bartleby: Chigorin played a lot of dubious openings against top-flight competition, and often got evicerated for it (one could make a games collection entitled: "Chigorin's opening Catastrophes"). The compromised defence is extremely risky for a reason; black's greed increases the number of pitfalls in his position. It's often a beginner's error to go pawn hunting in an opening (as Morphy well knew) and the compromised defence is a good example. 8. Qb3 (Re1 is also popular) Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 Nge7 11 Ba3 Black's position is in real peril of collapsing to a combination with white's accelerated deployment. This is a prepared Evan's Gambiteer's wet dream. I would not like to employ this in praxis. It's easy to prove an opening's soundness or unsoundness in the cool of one's room with Shredder/Junior/Fritz fired up, but quite another OTB. For a fascinating article on the Evan's Gambit:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibit...
My favorite defence against the Evan's Gambit: The Hein Countergambit 4. ... d5!?, the spiritual cousin of the Falkbeer in the King's Gambit. Pillsbury played it at Hastings: Schiffers vs Pillsbury, 1896
And so did the 19th century's answer to Michael John Basman: H Hosmer vs P Ware, 1871
In one of his few bright spots in an otherwise stained record. Go figure! |
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Jun-28-06
| | keypusher: <bartleby> The game you posted is from Nuremburg 1896. At Hastings Pillsbury played 4....Bxb4 5. c3 Bd6 twice, winning both. Schiffers vs Pillsbury, 1895
Bird vs Pillsbury, 1895 |
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| Jun-28-06 | | Bartleby: Yes I know, I got my links confused. There's no post-edit function, unfortunately. |
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| Jun-28-06 | | RookFile: I make mistakes too... sometimes you can delete your entry and type it in again. |
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| Jun-28-06 | | WMD: Other times, the mods will remove it for you. |
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Jun-28-06
| | keypusher: Here's one of the greats getting taken down in a compromised defense: J Mortimer vs Lasker, 1891
But the race is not always to the swift:
Taubenhaus vs Tarrasch, 1892 |
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Jul-04-06
| | keypusher: Well, here is an Evans with a very nice combination...unfortunately, I am the victim. [Event "benberren's mini-tournament"]
[Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?"]
[Date "2006.07.01"]
[Round "?"]
[White "aerial"]
[Black "keypusher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "1820"]
[BlackElo "1781"]
[Annotator "Fritz 8 (30s)"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2006.??.??"]
C52: Evans Gambit Accepted: 5 c3 ♗a5
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4
Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. Qb3 (I had never seen this before.) Qf6 (Maybe 6...Qe7 next time.) 7. d4 Nxd4 8. Nxd4 exd4 9. O-O dxc3 (Last book move.)
10. Qb5 Bb6 11. Bg5 (11. e5 Qf5 12. Nxc3 Ne7  ) 11... Qg6 (Fritz the fearless materialist gives 11... Qc6 12. Qe5+
Kf8 13. Qxc3 Qxe4 14. Nd2  ) 12. Nxc3 c6 13. Qe5+ Kf8 14. Rad1 d6 15.
Qxd6+ Qxd6 16. Rxd6 Ne7 17. Rb1 Ke8? (Suspecting nothing. Fritz still thinks Black is a little better after 17... Bc7 18. Rd2 Ng6. But then he would, wouldn't he?) 
click for larger view18. Rxb6! axb6 (Better is 18... f6 19. Bxf6 gxf6) 19. Nb5! (Beautiful!) cxb5 20. Bxb5+ Bd7 Forced.
21. Rxd7 f6 Forced again. 22. Rxb7+ Kf7 23. Bc4+ Kg6 24. Be3! (Suddenly I saw that, if the knight moved out of danger, Bf7 is mate!) 24...Ra4?? (But White is winning even after 24... Rhc8 25. Be6 Re8 26. f4 h6 27. Rxb6) 25. Bb3 (25. Bb3 Rxe4 26. Bc2) 1-0 Practically everyone in this tournament is better than I am, so there might be quite a few games like this to come. |
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Jul-04-06
 | | Eggman: <<Practically everyone in this tournament is better than I am, so there might be quite a few games like this to come.>> If you can make sure not to fall behind in develop then you can really turn things around in your favour. After move 12 [diagram] 
click for larger view... White has one of the biggest leads in development I've ever seen. If I were you I would stick to the old-fashioned Center-pawns-out-Knights-out-Bishops-out-Castle- Queen-out-connect-Rooks-Rook-to-open-file approach ... just as an experiment if nothing else. I can almost guarantee that, win or lose, you won't find yourself on the receiving end of this kind of drubbing. Also, if you do find yourself behind in development fight back hard with threats, including offers to trade pieces, for example after 16.Rxd6 then perhaps 16...f6 17.Bh4 Ke7 (a developing move as it starts to clear the way to connect the Rooks) 18.Rfd1 Bc7 19.Rd2 Nh6 (another developing move) and Black is still somewhat uncomfortable but he has an extra pawn and it isn't clear that White has any advantage. Black can think about ...Nf7 & then ...Rd8 or perhaps ...Nd6 & ...Be6. It difficult to see what White would do. For example 20.e5 Bxe5 21.Ne4 is thematic but doesn't seem to bring White much. |
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