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The Latvian Gambit 3…Bc5 Variation by Clyde Nakamura An earlier version of this article was sent to the Unorthodox Chess Openings group at Yahoo.
This is probably one of the most interesting lines of the Latvian Gambit. The Latvian Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5) used to be my main tournament weapon against 1.e4. Since then I have switched to the Elephant Gambit (1.e5 e5 2.Nf3 d5). The following 2 games shows why this line is so dangerous for White: [Event "Corr"][Site "cr"][Date "1965.??.??"][Round "?"] [White "Brodeur, Y."][Black "Cullum, J."][Result "0-1"] [ECO "C40"][PlyCount "34"][EventDate "1965.??.??"] [Source "www.chesslib.no"][SourceDate "2003.12.02"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. exf5 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Qh4+ 6. Ke3 Nf6 7. Bd3 Nd5+ 8. Ke2 Nc6 9. Nxc6 dxc6 10. Nc3 Nf4+ 11. Kf1 Nxd3 12. cxd3 O-O 13. g4 Bxf5 14. Kg2 Bxg4 15. Rf1 Bxd1 16. Rxd1 Rf2+ 17. Kg1 Qxh2# 0-1
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. exf5 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Qh4+ 6. Kf3 b6 7. Ng4 Bb7+ 8. Ke3 Ne7 9. Qe2 O-O 10. Kd3 Nxf5 11. Rg1 h5 12. g3 Qg5 13. Bh3 hxg4 14. Bxg4 Nh6 15. Bh3 Rf3+ 16. Qxf3 Bxf3 17. Bg2 Qd5+ 0-1 I did a preliminary analysis of the line below (assisted by a 24MB, Fritz8.ctg, CLYDE): 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. exf5 Bc5
4. Nxe5 4. Bc4 d5 5. Bb3 Nc6 6. O-O Nge7 7. Nxe5 Nxe5 8. d4 O-O 9. dxc5 Bxf5 10. Re1 N5g6 11. Be3 Be6 12. Nc3 Qd7 13. Bg5 c6 14. Ne2 Nf5 15. c3 Rae8 {+/- 0.72 edge for White, Fritz8. Actually Black's game is still solid. The piece count is even. Black could hold the draw. Nakamura. 4... Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Qh4+ 6. Kf3 Ne7 7. Ng4
7...h5 7... O-O 8. g3 Qg5 9. Kg2 Qxf5 10. h3 b5 11. Rg1 Bb7+ 12. Kh2 Qe6 13. d4 Bf3 14. Qd2 Bxg4 15. hxg4 Nbc6 16. c3 a6 17. Qe2 Qg6 18. Bg2 Rae8 19. Re1 Kh8 20. Be4 Qf7 21. Nd2 d5 22. Rf1 Qe6 23. Bd3 {+- 3.44 according to Fritz8} 8. Nf2 b5 9. Ke2 Nxf5 10. Ke1 Nd4 11. d3 O-O 12. Be3 Nf5 13. Bc5 d6 14. g3
14...Qf6 What if Q moves to square where it cannot be attacked by N? 14... Qd8 15. Ba3 Re8+ 16. Be2 Nd4 17. Ne4 Nxe2 18. Qxe2 d5 19. Nbc3 Bg4 20. Qe3 dxe4 21. Nxe4 Nc6 22. Bc5 Bf5 23. Kf2 Bxe4 24. dxe4 Qf6+ 25. Kg2 Qxb2 26. Rhe1 Rad8 27. Qb3+ Qxb3 28. axb3 Rd2+ 29. Kg1 Rxc2 30. Bxa7 Ne5 31. Rf1 Rb2 32. Rac1 c6 {-/+ 1.06 according to Fritz8} 15. Ne4 Qxb2 16. Nbc3 dxc5 17. Qc1 Qxc1+ 18. Rxc1 b4 19. Nd5 Na6 20. Nf4 Bb7 21. Kd2 c4 22. Re1 Nd4 23. Bg2 Rad8
Black is up -/+ 1.09 according to Fritz8. The following 2 games are of theoretical interest because
they were played by master John Elburg, the Latvian theorist: [Event "Corr thematic"][Site "?"][Date "1993.??.??"][Round "?"] [White "Tiemann, H."][Black "Elburg"][Result "0-1"][ECO "C40"] [PlyCount "56"][EventDate "1993.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. exf5 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Qh4+ 6.
Kf3 b5 7. d4 Nf6 8. Nc3 Bb7+ 9. Ke2 b4 10. Nf3 Bxf3+ 11. Kxf3 bxc3 12.
Qe2+ Kd8 13. bxc3 Re8 14. Qd3 Ne4 15. g3 Nxg3 16. hxg3 Qxh1+ 17. Bg2 Qh5+
18. g4 Qh4 19. Bf4 h5 20. gxh5 Qxh5+ 21. Kf2 Nc6 22. Bf3 Qh4+
23. Bg3 Qe7 24. Rh1 Qa3 25. Qc4 Qb2 26. Bh4+ Kc8 27. Bxc6 dxc6 28. Qxc6
Qxc2+ 0-1 [Event "Training game"][Site "?"][Date "1999.??.??"] [Round "?"][White "Sveinsson, Jon (ISD)"][Black "Elburg, John (NLD)"] [Result "0-1"][ECO "C40"][PlyCount "72"][EventDate "1999.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. exf5 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Qh4+ 6.
Kf3 b5 7. d4 Nf6 8. Nc3 Bb7+ 9. Ke3 b4 10. Ne2 Nd5+ 11. Kd2 O-O 12.
Nf3 Qe4 13. Qe1 Re8 14. Kd1 Qxf5 15. Qf2 Nf6 16. Nf4 Ne4 17. Qg1 g5 18.
Nd3 g4 19. Nfe5 d6 20. Nc4 g3 21. Be3 Nd7 22. Be2 Ndf6 23. Bf3 Rab8 24.
Nd2 Ng4 25. Bxg4 Qxg4+ 26. Kc1 c5 27. dxc5 dxc5 28. Nf3 Rbd8 29. Kb1 c4 30. Nde5 Qf5 31. Nxc4 Rc8 32. Nd4 Qf6 33. Na5 Nf2 34. Qc1 Be4
35. Rg1 Ng4 36. Rf1 Qb6 0-1 Here is a file with 56 games plus one analysis line free for you to download. After you unzip the file it will be a pgn file called latviane.pgn. Best Regards, Clyde Nakamura
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