So, maybe next year. Or by the time you're reading this, maybe this year. Maybe 2010.
And maybe
Thank you for reading this. May the new year bring you and yours the best of everything.
No maybe about that.
About the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and other chess foolishness...
An Alapin-Diemer Gambit turned up in today's TWIC. White's offer of the f-pawn is met by its old nemesis, e7-e5. Two draws in this line for you:
| Knoop, W (2059 - Van de Griendt, JW (2352) |
| 1/2-1/2 (TCh-NED 2009-10) 9/26/2009 |
Here's a BDG that showed up in this week's TWIC. It's a line that you don't see that often--although Alekhine once played it in a simultaneous exhibition (see the second game).
| Morcom, H. - Brooker, Chris H |
| 1-0 (Guernsey Open) 10/21/2009 |
| Alekhine, Alexander - Blount, L. |
| 1-0 (28 Board Simultaneous, Providence, Rhode Island) 12/23/1923 |
While looking over Euwe Defense games I once again came across this well-known one of Diemer's:
| Diemer EJ - Fuller RA |
| 1-0 (0292 Hastings Pr Resv Major) 1957 |
One of the many satisfying aspects of chess is its continuity, the recurrence of themes and ideas over the years. For example, consider this game by one of strongest BDG players of recent years.
| Diebert Charles - Bath J |
| 1-0 (0097) 1983 |
He didn’t care about correctness, complications were more important to him. To drag his opponent with him into the labyrinth, he gave everything for it. I’ve seen it in Zürich, the growing feeling of unease when he sacrificed a piece or more in every game, and won, but when afterwards it turned out the whole enterprise had been rather risky if only the opponent would have found the right moves behind the board. In analysing, too, it turned out that, although he had calculated much and much more than the average player, he did very much tend to calculate in his own favour. Even then it became clear that only Keres could stand up to him in such analysis sessions where hands grab and reach over the board. ‘Aber mein Lieber, was machen Sie denn darauf!’ [But my darling, what do you play now?] and Tal just laughed. ‘Wer hat gewonnen?’ [Who has won?] (…)Tal? Tal? Forgive me if I mislead you. Here Donner was writing about Tal. Not about Diemer. You can read the entire piece in this post in Chess Vibes. (scroll down to the bottom of the page).