Editing Smith–Morra Gambit (section)

==History==
The Smith–Morra is named after {{ill|Pierre Morra|fr}} (1900–1969) from France,<ref>[http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter15.html#CN_3953 Chess Notes by Edward Winter], entry 3953 ("Morra")</ref> and [[Ken Smith (chess)|Ken Smith]] (1930–1999) of the [[Dallas Chess Club]].<ref>[http://www.uschess.org/ratings/smith.php Kenneth Ray Smith (1930–1999)] Obituary at the US Chess Federation</ref> In Europe the name ''Morra Gambit'' is preferred; other names for it, including ''Tartakower Gambit'' and ''Matulovic Gambit'', have disappeared.

Around 1950, Morra published a booklet and several articles about the Smith–Morra. Smith wrote a total of nine books and forty-nine articles about the gambit. At the [[San Antonio 1972 chess tournament]], Smith played it against [[Donald Byrne]], [[Larry Evans (chess grandmaster)|Larry Evans]], and [[Henrique Mecking]], but lost all three games.

International Master [[Marc Esserman]], author of the 2012 book ''Mayhem in the Morra!'', is one of the leading advocates of the opening. In the Chessable Masters tournament in April 2023, [[Hikaru Nakamura]] played it in two rapid games against [[Fabiano Caruana]], winning one and losing the other.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/chessable-masters-2023-d5 | title=Nakamura beats Caruana, wins Chessable Masters | date=8 April 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2472507 | title=Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana (2023) }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2472509 | title=Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana (2023) }}</ref>