Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
1.e4 d5
My opponent has no games in ChessBase's 2025 Mega database, and I could find none online, and yet he has had an international rating since 2007. I thought I might find myself playing against a Pirc, or the fashionable Tartakower Variation of the Caro-Kann (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6), but a Scandinavian makes sense in that Black, as it were, gets his theory in first.
2.d4!?
But now it is a Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, which I hoped would be unfamiliar territory.
2...exd4 3.Nc3 a6!?
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| This position occurs 13 times in Mega25 |
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4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6
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| The game now bears a strong resemblance to the Classical Variation of the Caro-Kann (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6), except there Black has a pawn on c6 rather than a6 |
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6.Nf3 h6?!
This is normal in a Caro-Kann Classical after White has played h4. Here Black should probably play 6...Nd7 or 6...Nc6!?
7.Ne5 Bh7?
Stockfish17 and Dragon1 suggest 7...Qd6!?, but reckon White is winning, one line running 8.c4!? (8.Bf4 is also strong) Nc6 9.Nxg6 Qxg6 10.d5 Ne5 11.Be2, although there is plenty of play left in the position.
8.Qh5 g6 9.Qf3 1-0
Premature resignation? I thought so, although the engines reckon White's advantage is worth more than a rook.
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