Hi I invite everybody to spend some ideas about this variant 3 ... b6 on the Ruy Lopez: in our opinion here in Lecce City could be a new implant!
Andrea
Andrea
Known apparently as the Rotary-Albany Gambit and is honoured with exactly 1 game in the opening book (masters) here on Lichess:
en.lichess.org/B5PVXXsf#0
... drawn after 12 moves, not very instructive!
Looks bad to me because it immobilizes the P on d7. It can obviously not be moved because of Bxc6+; and if (after 4. 0-0) 4... Bb7, then 5. Bxc6 Bxc6 6.Nxe5 (6... Bxe4? 7.Re1 is horrible for Black). So the best move, if e5 is not to be lost, is 4... Bd6, which does even more to cramp Black's development.
en.lichess.org/B5PVXXsf#0
... drawn after 12 moves, not very instructive!
Looks bad to me because it immobilizes the P on d7. It can obviously not be moved because of Bxc6+; and if (after 4. 0-0) 4... Bb7, then 5. Bxc6 Bxc6 6.Nxe5 (6... Bxe4? 7.Re1 is horrible for Black). So the best move, if e5 is not to be lost, is 4... Bd6, which does even more to cramp Black's development.
I think that in the correct lines it would not develop drawish lines perhaps
Very probably, that's a peculiar (correspondence) game, they seemed to have lost interest.
Not sure what the "correct" lines would be though; the computer here immediately gives White a +1 advantage after 3... b3, probably for the reasons I gave above - Black either gives up his e-pawn or has to cramp his own development considerably to keep it.
Not sure what the "correct" lines would be though; the computer here immediately gives White a +1 advantage after 3... b3, probably for the reasons I gave above - Black either gives up his e-pawn or has to cramp his own development considerably to keep it.
3...b6 seems wrong on so many levels. Imo it makes little sense.
Obviously a mouse slip.
Yeah, it's an oddity, but I don't know how much independent value it really has aside from shock value.
Its main redeeming virtue is that black is doing just fine if white gets tempted by 4.Bxc6.
If white doesn't, and plays something more testing like 4.c3 or 4.0-0, then black might not be losing quite yet, but I really don't see what there is to like about black's position.
At least in some other dubious openings where objectively one side is doing poorly, there's something about the position like activity or threats that has some appeal.
Here I just don't see it.
But at the same time, it probably doesn't lose by force, so if it makes you happy... :)
Its main redeeming virtue is that black is doing just fine if white gets tempted by 4.Bxc6.
If white doesn't, and plays something more testing like 4.c3 or 4.0-0, then black might not be losing quite yet, but I really don't see what there is to like about black's position.
At least in some other dubious openings where objectively one side is doing poorly, there's something about the position like activity or threats that has some appeal.
Here I just don't see it.
But at the same time, it probably doesn't lose by force, so if it makes you happy... :)
It's not especially bad but definitely unusual and hard to find any advantages black gets over the mainline. en.lichess.org/W3vgJpgj/black
it seems inconsistent to play b6 if you are not going to follow with Bb7 - which you are not because of the dubbed pawn. it seems not terrible, but why would you?
The original game was played at the Rotary Club in Albany, NY, in 1935, between none other than Alexander Alekhine and a certain Catala.
If I were Sherlock Holmes I'd be highly likely to conclude that it was played after a good Rotary lunch during which the wine/vodka/whatever had flowed freely. This would account for the unexpected 3... b6, and also for the fact that Alekhine managed to come up with no less than 5 mistakes and 2 blunders, with a centipawn loss of 72. He still won though. (Click on the blue text under the board to get to the analysis).
en.lichess.org/PLPElfJH
If I were Sherlock Holmes I'd be highly likely to conclude that it was played after a good Rotary lunch during which the wine/vodka/whatever had flowed freely. This would account for the unexpected 3... b6, and also for the fact that Alekhine managed to come up with no less than 5 mistakes and 2 blunders, with a centipawn loss of 72. He still won though. (Click on the blue text under the board to get to the analysis).
en.lichess.org/PLPElfJH
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