Jim West On Chess: Tamburro on Fajarowicz

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tamburro on Fajarowicz

Alejandro Melchor of Barcelona has sent me the following e-mail, bringing to my attention Pete Tamburro's recommendation of 9.Bg5 in the Fajarowicz variation after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ne4 4.a3 Nc6 5.Nf3 a5 6.Qc2 d5 7.exd6 Nxd6 8.Nc3 Nxc4. Tamburro's move is better than Harding's 9.Qe4+.

Jim,

Some notes and analysis on Philidor Counter Gambit, Fajarowicz and Latvian Gambit in http://njscf.proboards2.com/index.cgi?board=amate blog of N.J. Chess Federation.
Remarkable a possible refutation ( Pete Tamburro ) on Fajarowicz with your idea 3.dxe5 Ne4 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.a3 a5!?
http://njscf.proboards2.com/index.cgi?board=amate&action=display&thread=189

All the best!
Alejandro Melchor

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov