I like to play gambits or at least gambit like openings, but so far I have failed to find a gambit in these defences. Does anybody have a suggestion?

I know lots of gambits for the Scandinavian, but few in the Alekhine's Defense.

KillaBeez wrote: I know lots of gambits for the Scandinavian, but few in the Alekhine's Defense.

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Could you give a few, please?

Some interesting ideas. Soundness is questionable. See move list for more lines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heres a cool article on 1.e4 d5 2.g4!?

http://www.ericschiller.com/pdf/Grob_ZilbermintsGambit.pdf

Enjoy! 

I've heard of a gambit in the Alekhine that uses the e4-e5-e6 pawn advance, but I'm not sure on the move order of what the scenario would look like.

Thanks, Graw81. I was actually aware of The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and I have played some Blitz with it, but I didn't consider it to be very sound. It may be interesting to give it another try, though. Are  you aware of any literature on the subject?

I'm not so sure about your Alekhine lines. I may have to play main lines here.

Thanks also for the article. That's one gambit I will not be trying any time soon.

 

There are a few highly praised volumes on The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit. I think "Tim Sawyer" (if my memory is working properly) is the key author. Have a look at amazon.com! 

By the way, on the site that Graw81 mentions, there is also an article on one of his Scandinavian suggestions, the tennison gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3).

mathijs wrote: By the way, on the site that Graw81 mentions, there is also an article on one of his Scandinavian suggestions, the tennison gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3).

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 No problem about sharing some info with you =)

 There should be some books on the BDG.

 

I actually didnt notice Eric Schiller had an article on his page about 1.e4 d5 2.Nf3 with the idea of a kind of reversed budapest gambit. I was playing that for some time thinking i had come up with the idea haha. The article even includes the 3...Bf5 4.g4 line which i done some analysis on at home. I must now go read that article! 

I found an Alekhine game classified as a gambit with:

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.d4 d6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 dxe5 7.Nxe5

(black accepts by taking the bishop)

Niven42 wrote:

I found an Alekhine game classified as a gambit with:

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.d4 d6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 dxe5 7.Nxe5

(black accepts by taking the bishop)

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Thanks, but that's not really a gambit.

Paintbucket wrote: I've heard of a gambit in the Alekhine that uses the e4-e5-e6 pawn advance, but I'm not sure on the move order of what the scenario would look like.

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Buntin Gambit:   1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.e6

Niven42 wrote: Paintbucket wrote: I've heard of a gambit in the Alekhine that uses the e4-e5-e6 pawn advance, but I'm not sure on the move order of what the scenario would look like.

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Buntin Gambit:   1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.e6

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Now that's a real gambit. It seems pretty worthless, though.

I know a gambit that works against Qa5 scandinavian. Its offering a pawn by pushing pawn to b2-b4 attacking the queen followed by quick queenside development, but the lines that follows the gambit positions are certainly not forced, but quite normal. I will try to find representative games.