Draft:Allgaier Gambit
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Comment: Does not meet notability for its own page, should just expand section on King's Gambit Lacanic (talk) 20:53, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
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| Moves | 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ECO | C39[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Named after | Johann Baptist Allgaier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | King's Gambit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Allgaier Gambit is an aggressive and slightly dubious opening variation in the King's Gambit. It begins after the moves:
Black tries to maintain the Pawn advantage with 3. g5. White attacks the strong pawn chain with 4. h4 and black advances it (4. g5), attacking the White Knight.
Instead of going for 5. Ne5 (the Kieseritzky Gambit) White chooses the more daring 5. Ng5, with the intention to later sacrifice the Knight on f7, As the White Knight is trapped and has no safe squares to retreat to after 5. h6.[2]
History
[edit]The gambit now called the Allgaier was first mentioned by the Italian chess player Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani in his book "The incomparable game of chess".
In George Walker's "A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor" there were some games included between Bruhl and an English player named Cotter. So for a while, this opening used to be called the "Cotter Gambit".
However, the person who popularised the opening is Johann Baptist Allgaier. The variation is likely named after him because he published more thorough analysis on 5. Ng5 than anyone else before him. Notably in Neue theoretisch-praktische Anweisung zum Schachspiel ("New theoreticalpractical instruction on the game of chess"), specifically the 1819 edition.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Chess openings - C39: King's Gambit (Accepted, Allgaier Gambit)".
- ↑ Emanuel, Lasker. Lasker's Manual of Chess (PDF). p. 60.
- ↑ Harding, Tim. "Not Quite Winning with the Allgaier Gambit" (PDF).