Queen's Gambit | CRUSH with Albin Countergambit! ⚡ Quick Wins #71
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chess noob Quick Wins! is a series of short videos, to demonstrate very quick wins! As a beginner, you become aware of the Scholar's Mate and the Fool's Mate, but neither of these show up in real games. However, there are tricky quick checkmates and wins that occur, even at the intermediate level of chess.
Today's game is a very lovely example of the Albin Countergambit from @Hippocampus_D, a club mate form Team Australia. The Albin Countergambit is a rather neat approach by Black to the Queen's Pawn Opening and then the Queen's Gambit by immediately striking in the centre (1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5). It has some similar conceptual ideas to the Englund Gambit, which is what I play, in that it tends to force the game down open lines, rather than potentially more closed positions coming out of the Queen's Gambit Declined or the Slav and Semi-Slav Defenses.
Indeed, by move 6 there's been a flurry of trades, the queens are off the board, and we've a very interesting position. White is slightly better according to the engine [+0.2] but Black has better development, and their rook controls the fully opened d-file on d1. As per page 26 of my book "50+2 Chess Quick Wins", one of the tactical ideas that can be very effective is to attack using open centre files.
White now makes the first real mistake in the game in a difficult position to play with (7. e3). There is a logic to the move - White opens the diagonal for their light square bishop, which defends their otherwise hanging pawn on c4. However, the engine recommends developing their dark square bishop immediately. Unfortunately, e3 blocks in their development and the risk to White's king is that it is hemmed in against the d-file.
Black immediately exploits this weakness by going on the attack (7... Nb4!) threatening infiltration of the c2 square, which White cannot defend against, and which comes with an absolute fork. White attempts to move their king out of the impending check with (8. Ke2), but this is a mistake - hanging their c-pawn and allowing White to infiltrate with their bishop and win tempo (8... Bxc4+).
White now moves out of check in the wrong direction with (9. Ke1??) rather than moving to the only other legal move Kf3. The net has been woven and the king has fallen into it... Black's knight leaps forward (9... Nc2#) and it is checkmate. GG!
Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/90730750555
