Smith Morra Gambit: 5 Nf3 d6

5 Nf3

5 Bc4!?

5 ... d6

5 ... e6!?
5 ... g6!?
5 ... Nf6!?
5 ... e5!?

5 ... g6 6 Bc4 Bg7 7 0-0 Nf6
( 7 ... d6 8 h3 Nf6 9 Bf4 0-0 10 Qd2)
8 e5 Ng4 9 Bxf7+ Kxf7 10 Ng5+ Kg8
11 Qxd4 Nxe5 12 Qe4 e6.

5 ... e6 6 Bc4 a6 ( 6 ... Bb4?! 7 0-0 Nge7
8 Qe2 0-0 9 Rd1 Bxc3 10 bxc d5 11 Bd3)
7 0-0 Nge7 8 Bg5 f6 9 Be3 b5 10 Bb3 Ng6
11 Re1!?.

5 ... e6 6 Bb5 a6 7 Bc4 b5 8 Bd3 Bc5
9 0-0 d6 10 a4 b4.
5 ... e6 6 Bf4 Bb4 7 Bd6 Nge7 8 Bb5 Qa5
9 Qd3 Bxd6.

5 ... d6

ASSIAC THE DELIGHTS OF CHESS (An Excerpt)

“It was the twenty-sixth title match in the history (as from Steinitz) of the chess world championship. The match began on 14 April in the traditional venue, Moscow’s Estrada Theatre, and the
1 500 seats had been sold out for many weeks.

The challenger was slightly favoured by the experts, but no one could deny the toughness and experience of the reigning champion.

As a matter of fact, even though Black in the first game, the defending champion won it, and the next three games were drawn. When Spassky equalised the score in the fifth game and, winning two more, led by two points after the eighth game, many experts considered the match to be practically decided.

But it certainly wasn’t, for in the tenth and eleventh game the world champion, playing at the top of his form, could vanquish the challenger, thereby equalising again and holding on up to 8:8 after the sixteenth game.

In the very difficult seventeenth, thanks to a mistake of his fatigued opponent, Spassky went ahead; the next one was a draw, and in the nineteenth, no doubt the most brilliant game of the entire match, Spassky once again established a lead by 2 points. He was playing White.”

Smith Morra Gambit

5 Nf3 d6

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