Historical Perspective:
A. Blumenfeld
In the mid 1980’s I was eager to find a new aggressive weapon against 1.d4. I considered the Blumenfeld gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 b5); but it had a “defect” which was that White could avoid it with 3.Nc3 or 3.g3, but its ideas in general were attractive to me. These ideas led me to consider the “accelerated” Blumenfeld. The positions which occurred after:
Yet there was there a refutation, namely 7.e4! Black will be crushed if he plays 7…Nxe4, which has been proven in many games such as:
If Black doesn’t take the e4-pawn, he is strategically lost as in:
This line simply doesn’t work.
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