In this episode FM Selim Gürcan reviews games sent in by his followers who played the Turkish Gambit.
Games from followers
In Zagot – Bay_bay_ar, Black used the Turkish Gambit to pressure the centre; against White’s passive moves ...Re8 added pressure, and after the mistake Qc4 ...Ba6 won a piece. In TR_Kaplan – Gmy_Pampam, Black left the white king defenceless with ...Bg4 and ...Qe4 and won with a mating attack (4:11). In Kaya_Civatali – ZayifO, Black trapped the white king in the centre and made mate unavoidable with ...Bh5 and ...Nf4 manoeuvres (4:43).
Other games and Gürcan’s own game
The video also shows games where a queen is trapped after a ...Bf3 sacrifice and games where Black defended carefully against Nf7 sacrifices and won on the counter-attack. At the end (14:15), Gürcan shows a game from his own account that started with a Bb4 check.
This article is adapted from the video on the Satranç Okulu YouTube channel.
