Before the Zilbermints Gambit

I was looking through Lev Zilbermints' book on his line against the Euwe Defense and came across an old game of mine he had included. To think, I played this game when I didn't even know it was the Zilbermints Gambit! Or maybe I did, since Lev and I were corresponding around this time.

Anyway, this gives me the opportunity to try a new game posting format introduced by the Chess OK folks with their Aquarium software. Please let me know if this works for you.

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Purser, Tom - Peters

1-0, 4/1/1993.

[#] 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 e6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.Bd3 Nc6 8.O-O Nxd4 9.Kh1 Nxf3 10.Qxf3 Bd7 11.Rad1!

[11.Qxb7 Rb8 12.Qa6 Rxb2 (Zilbermints, Sawyer)]

11...O-O

[11...Bc6 12.Bb5 Bd6 13.Bxc6+ bxc6 14.Ne4 ]

12.Qh3 g6

[12...h6 (Schiller) 13.Bxh6 gxh6 14.Rxf6! mates.]

13.Bc4 Nh5 14.Bh6 Ng7 15.Ne4 Qe8 16.Qc3 f6 17.Rxf6 Bxf6 18.Nxf6+ Rxf6 19.Qxf6 Nh5 20.Qe5 Rd8 21.Rxd7 Rxd7 22.Bxe6+ Rf7 23.g4 Nf6

[23...Qc6+ 24.Bd5 ]

24.Qxf6 Qc6+ 25.Kg1 Qc5+ 26.Kg2 Qxc2+ 27.Kh3 Qd3+ 28.Kh4 g5+ 29.Qxg5+ Kh8 30.Qe5+ Kg8 31.Qg7# [1-0]

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The Zilbermints Gambit in the Euwe Defense

The Yahoo Group "Chess Unorthodox UON" has released UON 25, a special edition which is devoted solely to Lev Zilbermints' line in the Euwe Defense, which Lev calls, well, the Zilbermints Gambit, not to be confused with the Zilbermints Gambit in other openings.
The line goes 1 d4 d5 2 e4 de4 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 f3 ef3 5 Nxf3 e6 6 Bg5 Be7 7 Bd3 Nc6 8 00! Nxd4 9 Kh1, resulting in the diagram on the cover. (Correction: 9 Kh1 is the Z Gambit, but the cover diagram extends it with 9...Nxf3 10 Qxf3).



This is one way to solve the problem of White's weak d-pawn. Give it up. After all, Diemer did it in the 5.Qxf3 variations. So maybe we could call this Lev's Classical Double Pawn Sacrifice?

This is not a small effort. There are 56 pages here, and it's only part 1 of 2!

The price is right--it's free. You need to join the Yahoo Group, which you can do here, and then download the PDF document.