The Best Attacking Openings For White (Part 2)
A few of months ago i posted a blog called "The 3 Best Attacking Openings For White Part One” , which got a good fair amount of views and was much liked by you guys, meanwhile a couple of days ago I posted “The 3 Best Attacking Openings For Black Part Two” and this also seemed to do well so I have decided to make a part two for the white openings now .
As like the last for black blog this blog for white will be covering three openings for white. I hope you enjoy it.
1. The Smith-Morra Gambit
The Smith-Morra Gambit starts off from the Sicilian Defense, with 1.e4 c5 and here instead of playing, 2.Nf3 the open line or 2.Nc3 the closed line we play 2.d4 and here black most often responds with 2...cxd4 and here we play 3.c3 gambiting our pawn instead of recapturing, this is the Smith-Morra Gambit.
Key Advantages:
The key advantages of it is that it takes you out of the deep theory of all the different Sicilian lines, as there are so many like the Najdorf or Dragon or French and so many others that it is impossible to know all the theory, so with the Smith-Morra it is YOU who is dictating what variations you should play and YOU are the one who knows all the theory and your opponent is the one who doesn’t and has to wing it.
It is a very tricky opening with many pitfalls and traps that black can fall into if unprepared, furthermore of the bat you are quite far ahead in development and a lot of open diagonals and lines which first gives you a ton of extra tempos meaning black has to play catch up for much of the game and two it allows you to quickly and immediately go on the attack!
Great Tactic :
After we play 3.c3 black goes 3...dxc3 and we recapture with 4.Nxc3 and black typically plays Nc6, here we play 4.Nf3 and here a very common move that many players who are unfamiliar with this gambit play d6 which we will take advantage of them not closing the a2-g8 diagonal by playing 5.Bc4 and here many people play Nf6 and we play 6.e5 Nxe5 is popular 7.Nxe5 dxe5 and here we play 8.BXF7!! Kxf7 is forced and we grab the queen with 9.Qxd8 gg.
2. The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit starts of unlike the last opening that had 1.e4 , but instead we play 1.d4 and here the most common move for black is 1...d5 and here instead of playing 2.c4 for the Queens Gambit or 2.Bf4 for the London System (which I covered in a previous blog) , but instead we play 2.e4 gambiting our pawn, this is the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit.
Key Advantages:
The key advantages of it is that it is a very simple attacking opening, in that even if your opponent makes the right move or deviates and plays moves that you didn’t expect or that aren't main line, you will still have an advantages position and your attack is so simple and repetitive that you can do the same things in many different positions.
What the key concept is for this gambit is that you gambit away several pawns to help quickly develop all of your pieces and give you the initiative to go one for a big attack on blacks king.
Great Tactic:
After 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 , the main line, one move you can instead of the usual 4.c3 you can actually play is 4.Bg5 and here black most often goes Bf5 and to this we play 5.c3 exc3 6.Qxc3 and look here we have the normal Blackmar-Diemer Gambit position but this time we have more threats as we are attacking the bishop and b pawn with our queen, here they play Bc8 bringing there bishop all the way back which gives us even more advantage, here we play 7.O-O-O and they play e6 we play 8.d5 and if exd5 then 9.Nxd5 Nbd7 is most popular 10.Re1+ Be7 11.Rxe7 and we have won this game.
3. The Bishops Opening
The Bishops Opening starts with 1.e4 e5 but instead of playing 2.Nf3 like most players to play say for example the Italian or Ruy Lopez, we play 2.Bc4 instead.
Key Advantages:
The key advantages of it is that it gives us attacking advantages through early piece activity and flexible development. We immediately targets black's vulnerable f7 square, putting pressure on black's position and potentially disrupting their development.
It also allows us to maintain flexibility in attacking, enabling white to quickly move to a kingside attack or central control. Us can also develop without committing to an early pawn structure, allowing for tactical strikes when the time is right.
The fact that it is less commonly played also gives us the element of surprise, as this means that black likely does not know how to counter this opening thus making key mistakes.
Great Tactic:
The most common move for black is Nf6 and here you play 3.d4 sacrificing your pawn and there most popular move here is exd4 and here you play 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Qxd4 Nf6 and we go 6.Nc3 Nc6 we go 7.Qh4 Be7 we play 8.Bg5 and h6 is popular, here we play 9.O-O-O ! as they cant take our bishop because our queen will take there rook, and here they play O-O we go 10.Bxf6!! because we will then go 11.Qxf6 and overall you will checkmate black soon here.
But they might play Ng4 thinking they are attacking your queen and threatening a fork but in reality we play 12.Qg6+ and they cant take since the bishop pins there f pawn, Kh8 and we pick up the knight and continue on our checkmating attack against there exposed king.
Thank you for reading this blog,I hoped it helped! In the future i will look to post more blogs about these openings in a much greater depth, so stay tuned. And don’t forget to follow my account other here @NoahdeAlwis .
