Secret Weapon Against the Owen's Defense! (Naselwaus Gambit)

Has anyone ever tried to surprise you with the Owen's Defense? Reflect the surprise back at your opponent with the surprisingly venomous Naselwaus Gambit!

What is the Naselwaus? Learn how to boldly sacrifice a center pawn right out of the gate, seize the initiative, and crush your opponents with this deadly gambit!

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[overpowah]

Random person: passes nearby
Jonathan: BISSNOBLORPZ GAMBIT!!!

[CitizenLUL]

JOHNATHAN SCHRANTZ!! First he brought us the Nakhmanson, and now he introduced us to the NASELWAUS. What an influencer, a legend!

[CJ]

Welcome back to another episode of gambits you can't pronounce. This is definitely your kinda thing Jonathan. Thanks for improving our gambit theory 😅🙏

[Kuasm]

I've played this for years- it's a weirdly strong opening. I think Stephen Büecker had something to do with developing the gambit back in the 70's. It's also known as the Mousetrap Gambit.

[RoyDeweyStorey]

EricRosen is the top game in the database lol

[pervert]

I truly enjoy all your videos and lessons. You make it fun, interesting and easy to follow; much appreciated.

[cidmatrix]

I've never heard of this gambit before until now. Thanks for the great content!

[DanielReidOnLine]

Love it, thanks for posting. Been following you for a while now, appreciate your teaching style.

[bjornalexandermusic]

The Naselwaus was invented and named by German Fide-Master Stefan Bücker, who, besides publishing the chess magazin "Kaissiber", wrote some very interesting books since the 80s (The Vulture, The Hawk, The Woozle, The Orthoschnapp ... and many more creative ideas are Bücker's!). He published about the Naselwaus in a small book called "Gambit 59" (1985).

[snookslayer]

Wouldn't be Shrantz without a gambit! Actually this opening is similar to the Trompowsky attack (without the gambit) by putting Bishop on g5 so early. Not a popular move, but it often takes opponents out of memorized book moves. And like in this game, black often moves the g and h pawns to push the bishop back... but creates weaknesses on their King side in the process. In any case, good video! Would love to see you play a true Trompowsky someday.

[justanotheryoutubechannel]

just what i was looking for... a gambit against the owens! i've only recently started playing again, and have already seen the owens french. right now, i'm looking into it from a 1.d4 e6 2.e4 b6 move order. I WAS building a book around 3.Bd3 which performs best, but if this is a GAMBIT, it might suit my style better and i'm SURE there'll be even LESS theory to memorize.

UGH! you jump around back and forth much, i'm having a bisquit of a time trying to notate theory for this! i keep getting lost and having to try and find where you are in my tree. larger notation would be nice so i can SEE it trying to bounce between notepad & youtube.

[fireheart]

Jonathan the mad scientist of Chess!😂❤️

[abj]

I played Owen's for a period. My discovery is it's great to threaten the e4 pawn but you never take.

[maulerXX]

As someone who almost always plays the Owens as black, I've seen a variety of ways for white to gambit the e4 pawn. But what I don't understand about this particular gambit is, what exactly is the value of putting the bishop on g5 in particular? As happened in your game, I myself would almost always begin by chasing the bishop back, before taking the pawn. Then I would plan to castle queenside, having already gained some space on the king side in the process of chasing the bishop. So my question is, what is the value of putting the bishop on g5? You could gambit that same pawn in other ways that might be more productive, no?

[ericbhatnagar]

You had em Jon! Great work. Dont worry about the mate that was super easy to miss

[shinjinator]

Nice video! I hope you will be able to get a deep analysis of the Fred opening! I think its fun to play!

[MLSaini-kklr]

Very good invention for practical point it up . Keep working on crazy ideas

[MetalAngel]

Hi Jonathan. I am currently building a repertoire with Stockfish 16 for the Owen's Defense. I go up to 30 moves deep at 40 ply for my lines/games, well passed the midgame. I ran your line and it turned out equal. Sorry, it doesn't seem all that scary:
1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bg5 Bxe4 4. d5 c6 5. c4 h6 6. Bh4 g5 7. Bg3 Bg7 8. Nc3 Nf6 9. h4 g4 10. Nge2 Bh7 11. Be5 d6 12. Bxf6 Bxf6 13. Ng3 Nd7 14. Qxg4 Rc8 15. Rc1 Be5 16. Qd1 cxd5 17. cxd5 O-O 18. Bb5 Nf6 19. O-O Rc5 20. Bd3 Qc8 21. Bxh7+ Kxh7 22. Qd3+ Kh8 23. Qe3 Kg7 24. Nge4 Rc4 25. b3 Rb4 26.Nxf6 Rxh4 27. Rfe1 Bxf6 28. Ne4 Qf5 29. Nxf6 exf6 30. Qg3+ =

[Jaylooker]

It has interesting compensation. Also, you can catch people premoving e6.

[tonysu]

For those who might still be mystified by the logic in this opening, I'd summarize
- Black loses some tempi initially by the QB. First the extra time to fianchetto, then grabbing a pawn and then retreating
- Black took the time to create the queen side fianchtto and resulting in holes on that side, then the QB disappears and doesn't return. Those holes can be exploited
- Black's Queen side is a piece down if White wants to bring pressure and pieces to bear on that side with a numerical superiority. Blacks QB on the other hand can contribute only defensively and not offensively on the King side because of how a Bishop points diagonnally.