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Dutch Grandmaster Paul van der Sterren described the Evans Gambit as "unreal" and "fairylike". [3] The first analysis of the gambit was published in the Second Series of Progressive Lessons (1832) by William Lewis. [4] The gambit became very popular and was played several times in the series of games between McDonnell and Louis de la ...
Around 1825–1826, on shore leave in London, Evans played Alexander McDonnell, beating the latter with what is now regarded in chess circles as the first Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4). [2] According to GM Andrew Soltis, Evans was "the first player to be widely honored for an opening we know he played". [3]
Here, for the first time we find the Evans Gambit, which is named after its inventor, Capt. Evans. [ 11 ] The works of Lewis (together with his teacher Sarratt) were oriented towards the rethinking of the strictly Philidorian principles of play in favour of the Modenese school of Del Rio , Lolli and Ponziani . [ 12 ]
Both ECO and Chess Informant are published by the Belgrade-based company Šahovski Informator.The moves are taken from thousands of master games and from published analysis in Informant and compiled by the editors, most of whom are grandmasters, who select the lines which they consider most relevant or critical.
Play The Evans Gambit, rev. ed. [with Bernard Cafferty] (Cadogan, 1997) Winning at Correspondence Chess (Batsford, May 1996). Better Chess For Average Players (Dover, 1996; Oxford University Press, 1977) Evans Gambit and a System v Two Knights Defense, 2nd ed (Chess Digest, 1996) The Fighting Fajarowicz (Chess Digest, 1995)
Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess player, author, and journalist who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1957. He won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times.
Game animation. The Evergreen Game is a famous chess game won by Adolf Anderssen against Jean Dufresne in 1852.. This was probably an informal game.At the time, there was no formal title of "World Champion", but the German mathematics professor Anderssen was widely considered the best player in the world after winning the first major international chess tournament in London in 1851.
Leko Gambit of the Anti-Grünfeld – 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 e5 – named after Peter Leko [84] Leonhardt Variation of the Evans Gambit – 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 b5 – named after Paul Saladin Leonhardt [85] Levitsky Attack – 1.d4 d5 2.Bg5 – named after Stepan Levitsky