King's Gambit, Falkbeer Countergambit

The Falk Beer- counter-gambit is an opening in chess variant. It develops from the King's Gambit, named after Ernst Falk Beer. In the ECO codes, it is classified under C31 and C32.

The counter-gambit arises after the moves:

Instead the farmer offered to beat f4, Black sacrifices a pawn himself to take the white pieces important fields and to take the initiative. The Siegbert Tarrasch opinion, with this sharp form of rejection will the King's Gambit sustainable refuted, could not prevail.

Variants

The main variant is obtained by:

  • 3 e4xd5 e5 - e4, the actual Gambit. The advanced pawn on e4 is in derogation of the natural evolution of the white king knight, which is why the White best attempts to resolve with 4 d2 -d3, the black center position.
  • 3 c7 - c6 e4xd5, the Nimzowitsch counter-gambit
  • In 3 e4xd5 e5xf4 the game " modern defense " of the King Knight Gambit goes to 4 Sg1 -f3 by diverter in the above.

Hats must be white before hitting the pawn on e5 in the third train:

  • 3 f4xe5? loses immediately because Qd8 - h4 , after 4 g2 - g3 wins Black with Dh4xe4 a whole tower. After 4 Ke1 - e2 Dh4xe4 5 Ke2 - f2 Bf8 - c5 Black receives irresistible attack on the king.
  • Gambit
Ernst Falkbeer Transposition (chess)
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