Introduction to Library EditionBlack plays the Englund Gambit 1.d4 e5 like a caveman. Just grab a club and pound away at White in the hope of finding a quick crushing victory. Hey, sometimes it works!This is fun chess, not serious chess, although some good players have used this gambit many times. The opening is named after the Swedish player Fritz Carl Anton Englund. Henri Grob and Stefan Buecker both played it quite a bit. My friend Lev Zilbermints has a line named after him.Englund Gambit is sort of like a Blackmar-Diemer Gambit reversed with a tempo behind. Back when I played 1.d4 e5 in tournaments, chess engines were rated below 2000. But I stopped playing it in tournaments about 30 years ago.I illustrate chess strategy from games vs random players as Guests. The book has 32 games with 103 diagrams. I win 20 as Black and 12 as White in 32 ten-minute unrated blitz games. Opening theory and endgame knowledge help your play, but tactics win most games.I use strategy for my comments to explain what's going on. I follow any of these steps. 1. Describe the current position. 2. Imagine how to improve it. 3. Plan how to get there.I pick a key position every few moves to make a comment. Look at the diagrams and read the comments with ease.I played chess for 50 years. As a correspondence master and blitz master, my usual opponents were rated 1800 to 2400. My opponents here are often lower to intermediate.I assume that you can read algebraic chess notation. The diagrams have White at the bottom of the board. Thank you for reading my books. I hope you enjoy this one!
