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Kasparov scored with an intriguing speculative gambit in the second game.
Qb6, Seirawan did not shrink back from the speculative gambit with 6 e3!?
But in Round 7, he reverted to the speculative gambit style for which he is best known in defeating Gerald Hertneck, the most recent German to achieve grandmaster rank.
In the final round, Kasparov needed to win to escape his pursuers, and he came through in spectacular style, playing the very model of a speculative gambit to defeat Sergei Movsesian of the Czech Republic.
Thus, White must either lose a pawn with 9 Ng3 Ng4 or else venture a speculative gambit with 8 Nf5 g6 9 g5!? Anyone who starts a game this way must be intending the gambit choice all along.
After 10 Nc4, an old speculative gambit was revived in a Tukmakov-Berelovich encounter in Koszalin, 1998: 10... O-O!? 11 Bc6 Bc6 12 Ne5 Be8 13 Be3 Nd5 14 Qb3 Ne3 15 fe b5 gave Black positional compensation for his pawn, but he failed to prove that it was sufficient.
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Watch out for Yasser Seirawan, a Seattle grandmaster of a Syrian father and a British mother who is branching out in an unexpected way - speculative gambits.
However, he is not as conservative as he was several years ago and can no longer be counted on to eschew speculative gambits and incisive tactical operations.
And unlike 5 e4 b5 6 e5 Nd5 7 a4, it doesn't involve White in a speculative, unclear gambit that he can easily lose.
And elsewhere, once-magical names such as Pitt, Pfeiffer, Moore, Eastwood and Costner, in the past synonymous with successful, star-driven moviemaking, now represent speculative casting gambits.
There followed a proliferation of speculative pawn sacrifices in the opening, called gambits, in order to achieve rapid mobilization and open lines for an attack.
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