The English Defense (with 1 d4 e6 2 c4 b6) came into being during the height of the
so-called "English Chess Explosion" of the late 1970s and through the 1980s, when
it was championed successfully at elite level by top English grandmasters such as
Tony Miles, Ray Keene, Jon Speelman and Nigel Short. While this hypermodern defense
is as quintessentially English as fish and chips and high tea, that didn't stop it
becoming universally played and pioneered in other countries - especially as it is
full of dynamics for the player of the Black pieces with so many inventive ways to
play it. And in a new series of GM Boris Alterman's Gambit Guide, our resident guru
of all things gambits looks at one such line being the English Defense gambit with
1 c4 b6 2 d4 e6 3 e4 Bb7 4 Nc3 Bb4 5 f3 f5 6 ef Nh6!?

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