Play the Halloween chess gambit to scare your opponents!

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Hi everyone,

Have a real fun Halloween and for all the chess lovers out there: Here's our advice!
Try the Halloween Gambit.

The Halloween Gambit, also known as the Müller-Schulze Gambit or Leipzig Gambit, is an aggressive gambit in chess, in which White sacrifices a knight for just one pawn. It is a branch of the normally staid Four Knights Game. The theoretician Oskar Cordel reported in 1888 that Leipzigclub players used it to dangerous effect but he did not believe it was sound. Their name for it, Gambit Müller und Schulze, was not after any players by those names; rather, it is a jocular German equivalent of "Smith and Jones" or "Tom, Dick and Harry". The opening is characterised by the moves

1. e4 e5

2.Nf3 Nc6

3. Nc3 Nf6

4. Nxe5

 

 

The goal of the gambit is to seize the center with pawns and drive back Black's knights. After 4...Nxe5, White usually plays 5.d4, in preference to 5.f4, which does not facilitate his development.

Check out wikipedia for a starter pack on the gambit. Enjoy.

Also click on the photo below to check out all the Halloween photos of Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk.

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Happy Chess Halloween (3)

One more Halloween pic for you. Hope you enjoy it. Feel free to use it on your blogs and sites.

Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk

Women's World Chess Champion

www.chessblog.com

Happy Chess Halloween (2)

By popular demand I'm posting another Halloween pic. I repeat my offer from 2 days ago (see below) to give an autographed prize to anybody who sends me their best Halloween chess photo(s) - I will select up to 3 prizes from all entrants.

Tomorrow I will post a re-mastered series of my Halloween chess photos.

Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk

Women's World Chess Champion

www.chessblog.com

Happy Chess Halloween!

Dear Chess Fans,

I would like to wish you a nice Chess Halloween this October 31st.

If any of you will celebrate Halloween with chess in any way, and if you send me a photo of your celebration that day, which includes chess in any fashion, carved in a pumkin, or a frightening chess move, or in your chess costume, I will send an autographed prize to the best submission I get!

Very best chess wishes to you,

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Women's World Chess Champion

www.chessblog.com