Last Monday I had quite an interesting encounter against Richard McMichael in a Middlesex league match. I had the White pieces and found myself facing the Dutch!!

On this occasion I thought that I would venture the ‘Povah’ Gambit. Which you can get after 3 e4!? hence the diagram on the left.

Below is a quick video on the game if you are interested.

I call this the Povah Gambit as I have seen Nigel use it on a number of occasions against the Dutch. Anyway onto the game, as always any comments are more than welcome.