Crush the Alien Gambit: for once and for all
As you may know, the alien gambit has become trendy against Caro-Kann in fast chess games thanks to the efforts of the rising chess youtuber: Witty_Alien. I have prepared a bulletproof (no-pun-intended) antidote for you all.
Above is the starting position of the gambit. Nxf7 in this position is called the Alien Gambit. This gambit is objectively pretty bad for white but can score very good results in bullet. CM Witty_the_Alien (Volen Dyulgerov) has won almost 80% of his games as white. I analyse one of these games, fully annotating how to crush this line.
https://lichess.org/study/pHbuJjUj/uBTSWSzb
Remarks
- Use the c5! idea to ensure control over d4 and then play Nc6!
- White has no way to gain counterplay without Ne5 so always play against that.
- Know that it maybe good to play cxd4 before going Bd6.
- Crush the Alien Gambit!
Next steps...
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