Falkbeer counter gambit.pdf

FALKBEER

COUNTER-GAMBIT

edited by

COLIN LEACH

ERNST FALKBEER

FALKBEER

COUNTER-GAMBIT

edited

COLIN LEACH

Printed in Great Britain by

Biddies Ltd.,

Guildford

for the publishers

Caissa Books (Publishing) Ltd

Grays Antique Market (A 18-19)

1-7 Davies Mews

London

WlY lAR

ISBN 1 870816 02 1 (Limp)

First published 1987

Reprinted 1988

INTRODUCTION

Strictly speaking, the Falkbeer Counter-Gambit is

characterised by the move order I e4 e5 2 f4 d5 3 ed5 e4, but it

has become usual for the name to be applied to all the

variations arising from I e4 e5 2 f4 d5, and we have followed the

custom, particularly as it enables us to discuss a number of

interesting and theoretically important sysyems.

The counter-gambit derives its name from Ernst Falkbeer,

who was born in Buenn in 1819 and died in Vienna in 1885.

Falkbeer published his analysis in the Deutsche Schachzeitung

for 1850, and the following year tried it out successfully against

Adolf Anderssen (see game 71). Since then the counter-gambit

has been through all sorts of traumas, mainly as a result of

Keres' discoveries, but at the moment it has no shortage of

supporters.