Ship ahoy

The Evans Gambit was invented by a British naval officer of the early part of the 19th century, Captain W.D. Evans, who invented a form of ship’s lighting which was given an award by the Tsar of Russia. Captain Evans’s gambit is highly suitable at club and county level and in the 19th century it captured the scalps of many great masters, including Johannes Zukertort and Adolf Anderssen. For the latter, see this week’s game. In modern chess it has been employed by Garry Kasparov, and even Viswanathan Anand and world champion Magnus Carlsen have fallen victim to its intricacies.
 
The Evans has recently received a boost from MEGA, the Make the Evans Great Again campaign, introduced by the erudite and witty author of the @HowardStaunton Twitter feed. I highly recommend this feed for its extraordinary knowledge of chess history and tradition, and for its stunningly convincing recreation of the authentic voice and style of that Victorian chess champion and polymath Howard Staunton.