Chess Strategy Englund 1.d4 e5: How to Beat Intermediate Chess Players

Black plays the Englund Gambit 1.d4 e5 like a caveman. Just grab a club and pound away at White in the hope of finding a quick crushing victory. Hey, sometimes it works!
This is fun chess, not serious chess, although some good players have used this gambit many times. The opening is named after the Swedish player Fritz Carl Anton Englund. Henri Grob and Stefan Buecker both played it quite a bit. Lev Zilbermints has a line named after him.
Englund Gambit is sort of like a Blackmar-Diemer Gambit reversed with a tempo behind. Back when Tim Sawyer played 1.d4 e5 in tournaments, chess engines were rated below 2000. Later the author stopped playing it in rated games, but he still plays it sometimes for fun.
The author illustrates chess strategy from games vs random players as Guests on chess.com. The book has 32 games with 103 diagrams. Tim won 20 as Black and 12 as White in 32 ten-minute unrated blitz games. Opening theory and endgame knowledge help your play, but tactics win most games.
The author uses strategy for many comments to explain what’s going on. He follows any of these steps. 1. Describe the current position. 2. Imagine how to improve it. 3. Plan how to get there.
Tim picks a key position every few moves to make a comment. His plan is for you to browse through the book, look at the diagrams and read the comments with ease.
For those who prefer to read quickly, you can skim through the book from diagram to diagram. Note the change from the previous diagram and read any notes that interest you.
Sometimes a line of chess engine analysis is added. You may wish to work out those lines in your head, or just note that there was an alternative way to play and keep reading.