Young Champions

Hey all

Nice to see that you are all viewing. I am in a group, Young Champions on Chess.com. I reccomend that you all join. they are all very friendly people and are all our age. Also, if you guys have any questions about the blog comment.. no one has said anything!

St. Mary's students

Hi Students from St. Mary's. I am not sure if you have read any of my blog yet, but I just wanted you to know that my name is Eric, and I play chess. I decided to make a chess blog to help out students on our chess team. I am always up for a game and I play chess online and I would love to play any and all of you. I hear you are very good. I play at chess.com under the username of Celticsfan1. If any of you want me to post something up on the site or have any requests to play me or ask me about something, please, leave a comment. I can't wait to talk to all of you.

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Eric

CHESS.COM

Hey Guys,
If you guys read this, I highly reccomend getting a chess.com account. If you want to talk to me through that, just leave your name and username and I will friend you. I also reccomend premium membership, and please refer me when you sign up (it gets free memberships which is =to Saving money) just refer Celticsfan1. See you then (on chess.com)

Best chess website (besides lasalle's blog of course)

hey guys.

Check this site out. It will really help you guys out. thechesswebsite.com 

Evans Gambit

So today, I will look at the Evan's Gambit. This is probably one of my favorite openings of all time. Not only is it super agressive, but it results in a very sharp game and usually is very short. As you could imagine, like all openings, the Evan's Gambit (Created by Sailor Evans (Random fact lol)) has many lines that could be played. You just need to know a few things.

1. It results from the Italian Game Giuco Piano Variation which I will go over after this part
2. It is scored better than the main lines, so you should always deploy it.

Things you need to know for the actual game:

1. This opening revolves around attacking the weak square, F7
2. Stop the opponent from castling kingside. This means have your black bishop on a3 usually
3. Have your Queen on B3. It supports the bishop on C4
4. Have your bishop on c4 (It should already be there)
5. Remember: DO NOT LET YOUR OPPONENT CASTLE

 I actually will finish this later.

Eric

Side Note

Just as a side note, if any of you notate your games like Elise, and you want me to analyze them and tell you what you could have done better, then e-mail me your games at eric.zuberi@gmail.com. If you want me to go over a different opening as well, I would gladly tell you what you need to know and I would probably make a post to the blog about it as well. good luck with your games. Anyone from the LaSalle Chess Team who goes to the tournaments (Which is everyone) should notate your games so that we can look at them and see what you need to work on so that you can improve yourself. Good luck with your games again and I would really like to hear some comments about my posts and what I should do to improve them

Italian Game Part 1 or 3

Hey Guys,
I decided to have some fun today and look at the Italian Game trap for Black. It is called the Blackmar-Schilling Gambit or as I call it "instantaneous death" Lol. Well this is how it goes.

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Nd4 (this leaves the pawn hanging and open to kill)
 If the knight takes the "Free" pawn then Black has the brilliant move Qg5
4. Nxp Qg5
5. Nxf7 Qxg2
there are multiple options here. The knight can take the rook if it wanted to, the rook can move to f1 so that it is defended. Both of these instantly lose.

Lets look at Rf1 first

6. Rf1 Qxe4+
7. Now either the bishop blocks or the queen blocks. If the bishop blocks then you have Nf3 checkmate. If the queen blocks then you can play NxQ winning your opponents queen.

Now we look at if the knight takes the rook. Now you play QxR+. Your opponent has to play Ke2. Then you play Qxe4+ and then the king has to go to f1 and then you play Qh1 checkmate.

This is a lot of fun. I am not completely done with this post because it is incredibly long, but I will keep working on it and hopefully it will be done soon