Hi there.
In this next, we're going to have a look at the so-called Smith Moore gambit.
So if you're white and you play E4 and they play Sicilian defense, you might want some kind of gambit
to use a hair to avoid the mainline theory.
So the mainline Sicilian would be like the open Sicilian.
But it does require you to learn quite a lot of theory and in all different variations of the Sicilian
defense, potentially you can bypass all of this by just playing a gambit, especially if you're just
playing online for fun for the time.
Controls this gambit after sometimes you just play Sifry and you're accelerating your development,
you're sharing the CFO.
It's a two way road.
You've got also a semi open file pressure on that Diffa.
And this has been a favorite of mine for many, many years.
And blintz.
I have a very big playlist with the Gambetta, the Smith Ma Gambit, and also there's an international
master exponent who has written a whole book on about it, Mark Assman.
So I thought we should have a look at one of Mark's games.
This is against a grandmaster opponent in the 112 US Open.
Round six, we see Lock Van Wheely playing nine ninety six here.
So can this can it be justified against a grandmaster of longer Angeles stature?
We see no.
Jeffrey Sachs, Bishop CIFOR, ASX, White Castles, Knight G7.
Now we see Bishop G five six every.
So some weaknesses have been created in Black's camp.
White Guards have significant pressure in theory, but in practice, can that be unveiled?
We see the bishop dropping back here to be free.
White has a very, very big idea now in this position of the B5, it's a sort for Mattick kind of sacrifice,
which if you read Marksman's book, Mohammed Merah, you'll get used to this kind of fanatic sacrifice
in this particular variation where Black has this particular set up and that dramatic move.
Well, I wonder if you can guess if I give you five cents for the video.
What is white play?
I'll give you a clue.
It helps liberate this whole dayglo, makes this whole thing a little bit more sensitive and improves
the quality of the special.
So it's a kind of positional peace sacrifice to be aware of in this particular line.
And it's 95, so it sets immediate dangers up.
There should be sex if it's ignored.
And 97, for example, by Bishop B, sex is immediately like trapping the queen as well.
So it is taken eatings.
We seem C five now desex.
So not giving black time to shut off this bishop that bishop has Clearview site on this dayglo.
So you might think, wow, and this is all not in our mainline.
That's right.
You play a lot of systems and you can play a lot of gambits and you can play a lot of offbeat variations
which often give, you know, very, very nice attacking position even against the grandmaster opponent.
If you play your cards right, especially we see Bishop B seven nights E five offtakes, five F 1995
here.
Then Whiteside still has an advantage here.
For example, Rook Iwon and Bishop five holding desex.
This isn't such a bad position at all.
If the black king stuck in the middle, there's compensation here.
So yeah, very, very interesting position indeed.
Could result.
But anyway, offtakes is played.
We see a full queen of thanks offtakes.
Queen takes five and now a stunning tactical move.
So the stronger you are tactically and the more you available to have amazing follow ups and one of
the governments you play because you're trying to make use of a potentially temporary advantage of leading
and peace pressure.
And there's a brilliant move played in this position.
I wonder if you can guess.
OK, essentially, Bishop G five, yeah, I mean, it's got a Fratta rookie, Wamba, isn't the bishop
just hanging?
We see the bishop ignored the bishop even if Quintet's G5, then there's a really nifty move in 21 Chank.
So for example, King The Ain't Queen 85 Jack and Quincy Severns Chameides.
And we look at this again.
If Bishop is seven seven Chac and this is the structure of bishops actually is chank seven chac d e
seven change chac from the rock and you can see the carnage and destruction that results.
So yes, very, very tricky indeed after this, this move.
And you might think, well what about Queene five.
Well, then there's still resources for whites, including, you know, F7 Shaq and Tensioning Queen
A5 Jack.
So that's that's also devastating, for example, like that.
So anyway, in this position, Bishop, 87, was played, it seems like a very resourceful grandmaster
move by Bishop F7 check.
Make sure the king is not counseling detainees.
He's seven, Chank maintains, and now Queen D2, which not only protects the bishop, but also means
queen.
A fine check is on the cards.
We have Kingsgate Lucchese one check 96 things after one Queen of five, Bishop four and there's a potential
battery move.
Queen Desex getting access to a common Skyliners like C7.
This battery arrangement between Queen and yes, the Bishop is offered there for this queen takes another
battery king the eight and I won't crashes through her wiv can you guess.
OK, Route 66 crashing through of the Queen St. C6, the game actually ended here as an example, if
it carried on, you know, we're Roxxy eight, then Bishop G5 check his strong.
And, you know, blacks in big, big trouble, if they're king or queen, it's checkmate, but most
blacks actually do have this is a very, very bad position of Queen Elizabeth.
We're just going to play queen, take some chutney, me.
So really crossing finish.
Yes.
This is a glorious advance.
Of course, a biased bystander, but seek the actual substance, not just the hype of what's presented
to you generally, not just by me, but by by any games you find.
But you will find, I mean, as I have found, great results to be had with this gambit system.
I think also, you know, sometimes I suspect if you play off the opening's and Gometz opponents are
not too happy.
All of that time they spent learning vast swathes of open theory.
I kind of wasted and have to learn this as well as the main line to in defense theory.
Yeah, this is why, you know, it's a bit of a beginner's trap, that ocean of stuff to potentially
minimize as also a big industry built up, you know, over the years of selling you a particular opening
videos.
You really want to get your fundamentals of the game in place before exposing yourself to essentially
technical details of chess.
The vast amounts of opening very when you play a game like this, you're saying, I just want an exciting
position where I can test my tactics.
I'm giving myself an accelerated pace.
Activity, developments, all the fundamental rules of the opening are being adopted.
Central control pace developments, rapid developments costing earlier, much earlier than the opponent.
The opponent wasn't even able to counsel in this particular game because of this very interesting Phanatic
piece sacrifice, which kept the black king in the center.
So the game is also sometimes creates so much pressure they overwhelm the opponent.
They can't even do the basic philosophy of the opening, which is to put oneself beyond the feet before
active operations, before going on the attack.
So the game has been a great point score for me, especially in defense, even against lambs and sometimes
jams.
Great results of Check out my spare for a playlist.
So I like to recommend stuff to you that I've actually played first hand.
I definitely have had a huge amount of fun with the spin from our in.
I used to call it the more Smith-Gander before finding actually it should be Smith more government.
So those are the two players that did a lot of research on it.
But Mark, as well as the modern international monster who has written the book on it, and this is
one of his model games, which is a great advert.
So when you do your own research, you know, you can look at variety games to see a variety of different
setups blank or just get the book, give you a guided tour of the different set ups.
OK, my estimate is a really great guy, great sense of humor, very witty read actually may have and
more if you do want to take this further in your studies to actually take this gambit to the next level
to understand all the particular systems that black and play.
OK, that's about.