The Most Aggressive Gambit in Chess - The Double Muzio Gambit

As a player who rarely plays e4 in tournament play, I tend to find a lot of the 1.e4 e5 opening systems a little dry, hence my interest in the King's Gambit.

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Recently, while playing against National Master Lucas Tomiello on Chess.com, I decided to try my luck with one of the most aggressive chess gambits, the Double Muzio Gambit.

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The opening has been most notably played by the likes of Karl Marx (yes, THE Karl Marx), Alexei Shirov, Eric Rosen, and most famously for me, by Hikaru Nakamura in the 2010 World Blitz Chess Championship against Dmitry Andreikin See The Game Here

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First, I should indicate that the Double Muzio Gambit is completely unsound if black remains calm and carefully wiggles out of the complications. But therein lies the problem...

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With the idea of the opening being to sacrifice multiple pieces to open the f-file and doom black to develop only his/her queen, precision is not something that comes easy for black in this opening. Additionally, in blitz time controls, if black doesn't understand the intricacies of the moves 6. bxf7 7. e5, 8. d4 and 9. be3 it is always going to leave black in a position where he has zero pieces developed, or alternatively, with no time left to finish the game.

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Check out my game below against NM Tomiello and see how I manage to take advantage of blacks' lack of development with a scintillating attack.

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