Gajewski Gambit A Theoretical Novelty in the Ruy Lopez

In 2007 Polish GM Grzegorz Gajewski introduced the Gajewski Gambit
(1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 d5) to the World during a tournament in Pardubice.
This

 was a theoretical novelty from the Black side of the Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5). Gajewski's game was an incredible game which featured a Q sac. See game attached.

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DarthMusashi

Another Gajewski Gambit game is attached.

This gambit chess opening can best be described as a delayed Marshall Gambit.

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DarthMusashi

So what? Any1 can download a game off the internet.

It's really rare that I answer e5 to e4, but I've actually played this gambit once victoriously. Didn't know the name though. Nice games. Thanks.

This gambit was actually popular among the top GMs in the world for a short time according to my friend IM Gerard Welling of the Netherlands. Magnus Carlsen played it twice and drew both games.

I got the games off my 50 million game chess database. There is a chess video on this opening by
GM Boris Altermann. The reason why the top GMs abandoned this gambit is because there is only one
dangerous line in this opening and the other lines tend to be drawish. If you are playing to win with
the Black side it is still better to play the Marshall Gambit.

Best Regards
DarthMusashi

i like the Panov System in the Spanish. I checked gajewski variation with engine. it seems surprising somebody would intentionally play this it seems almost like impaired judgement like an accidental piece movement. say like when they play 3...a5 instead of a6 and call it Bulgarian variation. it's almost like a pisstake. Marshall i thought was taken more seriously. Have you heard of Fred?

Even safter than the Berlin Wall and Petrov? 

The James Mortimer Trap ?

lol back when people ended comments with "best regards"

I'd say it feels different

Eight years this thread rested peacefully in its grave. Why dig up the past?

i heard YS covered this quite well in his inside chess magazine. a long time ago. also a writing came out called "Take My Books" in which this Gaj-Gambit gets headlonged into. GG !

So The Ghostess Lola is now Thee Ghostess Lola. Quite a change!

4 yrs ago i got mad at the abuse & nastygrams & obphotos & closed my acct. i self-settled & reopened it a few mos later (fri the 13th). when i went2do a reopen Mister Chess Dot Com said i couldnt use the exact same name. and so here i am ...left wondering if the usa court systems gonna outlaw viagra.

...& toby ?...thx 4da laffs nda 1st skit (1:22)...yee !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQrapQ4d0Y