Play Chess Openings: Blackmar-Diemer Huebsch Saeed

IM Nasser A. Saeed sent me this Huebsch Gambit blitz win vs GM Mark Hebden. The variation 3.e4 Nxe4 4.Nxe4 dxe4 5.Be3 Bf5 6.g4 is a critical line that seems to slightly favor White, but all that goes out the window when playing against a veteran grandmaster in an Internet Chess Club blitz game.

Black sacrificed the Exchange for two pawns in an effort to hold the position and counter-attack. Alas, one quick slip (see move 20) left him open to the tactic of removing the defender knight, with check no less. Suddenly Black’s queen was en prise and lost.

My Blackmar-Diemer Tactics with 500 combinations and mates.

Saeed (2222) – Hebden (2344), ICC 5 0, 28.09.2020 begins 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 Nxe4 4.Nxe4 dxe4 5.Be3 Bf5 6.g4 Bg6 7.h4 [7.Ne2!?] 7...h6 [7...h5!?] 8.Nh3 e5 9.dxe5 Qxh4 10.Bg2 Qe7 11.Nf4 Bh7 12.Qd5 [12.Nd5 Qxe5 13.Bf4+-] 12...Nc6 13.0–0–0 Rd8 14.Qb5 Qb4 15.Qe2 [15.Rxd8+ Kxd8 16.Qd5+ +=] 15...Nxe5 16.Nd5 Rxd5 [16...Qa5 17.Qb5+ Qxb5 18.Nxc7+ Ke7 19.Nxb5=] 17.Rxd5 Bd6 18.g5 Bg6 19.gxh6 gxh6 20.Rhd1 [20.Bd4+-] 20...Qc4 [20...Nc6 21.Rb5 Qa4 22.Rxb7+-]