Queen Sacrifice! | AMAZING Englund Gambit Line! 🤪
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Now, I love the Englund Gambit and entering the Englund Complex Trap Line! However, the common attitude that you’ll see in chess social media is that the Englund Gambit is thus not playable. However, the curious thing is that the Englund Gambit and Englund Complex continues to be played by titled players in online blitz tournaments, so there is a bit of a disconnect here.
As part of the research for the book I'm writing currently on Romantic opening attacks, I explored an approach suggested by Canadian GM Aman Hambleton of the chessbrahs, where Black sacrifices their queen against the Englund Complex refutation line by White! And recently, I got to try it out for the first time in a game!
This was a daily tournament game I played for Team Australia versus Team Spain. My opponent was substantially higher rated than me with an ELO in the 1600s for rapid (I'm in the 1300s). So perhaps foolishly, I played the Englund Gambit against their Queen's Pawn Opening, and it soon became clear that they knew the refutation. We arrived at the critical position on move 7... (1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Qe7 4. Bg5 Qb4+ 5. Nc3 Qxb2 6. Bd2! Bb4 7. Rb1!), and via a minor transposition as earlier, White played (4. Bg5), which I knew from previous analysis is Stockfish's preferred move on high depth analysis. White's moves so far are perfect!
Now, against (7. Rb1) and White's counterattack on Black's queen, Stockfish will suggest the sensible-looking move of (7... Qa3) but it's all downhill for Black as it represents a backwards retreat. White has the advantage, gains the initiative, and Black is forced into tricky defensive positions that are nonetheless losing [+2.4]. This is where the Queen Sacrifice Gambit comes in... we play the seemingly unimaginable (7... Qxc3!?) and sacrifice our queen!
At the end of the trade sequence, we force trade our queen for two minor pieces and a pawn (8. Bxc3 Bxc3+ 9. Nd2 Bxe5). Stockfish calls this move an inaccuracy, but it's not much worse on evaluation, from [+2.4 → +2.6], and we do gain some tactical compensation. As the dust clears, White has numerically 5 pieces while Black has 6. Importantly, Black retains both the bishop and knight pairs. Black's pawn structure is pristine while White has two isolated queenside pawns. Furthermore, Black retains some of the initiative and has an advantage in development. In essence, Black can continue the attack despite being down the queen!
We see this as the middlegame progresses. White presses their advantage, but my numerical piece superiority is felt. It's not so obvious that White, for instance, should trade down pieces, as in context, it has a greater impact on White’s coordination than Black’s. White sidesteps one sneaky tactic, but on move 24, is hit by a bishop absolute fork of their king and rook! For the first time in the entire game, the evaluation is now [0.00]! White's remaining rook, bishop, and queen are NOT better than my knight pair and rook pair!
White flounders against Black’s combination attack with the knights and rook and by move 33, we're notionally back to materially equality. White plays a sensible looking move, pushing their e-pawn forward, but it's a blunder [-2]! We see the potential power of the Queen Sacrifice Gambit - the better development, pawns, and numerical piece advantage can overwhelm White's retained queen. However, this position also demonstrates an important caveat, a sting in the tail. These tactical manoeuvres are tricky to find and hard to see! The winning path for Black would result in White losing much of their remaining material and enter an endgame with king and queen versus Black's rook, knight, two connected passed pawns, and a third pawn. Even though this is winning for Black, it is not simple to play!
In fact, I didn't see that correct path and the evaluation slips back to equality [0.00]. I could have pushed towards a draw, but a couple of careless blunders while playing on a device while distracted ended the game. Nonetheless, I was really pleased to have tried this for the first time. GG!
The big takeaway from this game is to consider trying this Queen Sacrifice Gambit line in the Englund Complex when White plays the refutation line. You haven’t got much to lose and it creates a really fun and dynamic game!
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At 4:00 if you are going to sacrifice the Queen.... wouldn't it be better with bishop takes knight first, rook takes queen, then bishop takes rook !
You would get 8 points instead of 7. Maybe I'm missing something 😅
I think that it's not just the material. Rather, it's the position that you're left with at the end of the sequence. Trading down the way as per the sacrifice removes White's active pieces and forces a backward knight move that is awkward, and removes their central pawn.
I'm sorry but i'm gonna be honest , in my opinon this is not a proper way to play chess , why would you deliberately give up a queen and '' hope '' white will somehow throw the advantage away ,if it happened in your game against this opponent doesn't mean it will always work , why not keep the queen play solid and outplay the opponent tactically and positionaly and maybe a chance for an actual brilliant sacrifice will came up ! , going for these cheap openings tricks and doubious gambits won't help you long term and it will defently not work in a higher level (+1700elo) where most players know what they are doing .
btw in masters level this is a joke , you can watch danya video about the englund , he goes deep analyzing it and there is no variation where black is better or equal trap line or not !
What do you define as "proper"?
In any case, as pointed out, this gambit is used in blitz tournaments by a number of GMs so it's a complete fine way to play.
@@chessnoob64 Though I would say, Englund gambit is fun to play with exciting and sparkling tactics around the board. Purchased and love your book!
@@peace13542 Thanks!
This is not a dubious or cheap trick, you're simply outplaying them in the middle and endgame due to your extreme compensation.