Conquer with the Budapest Gambit

The Budapest Gambit begins after 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5

We are playing this as black. This is not one of the more solid gambits(like the queen's gambit, or the Evan's Gambit). White has about 8 responses to our gambit: 1. Accepting 2. Push 3. Nf3 4. Nc3 5. Bf4 or 6. e4.

Accepting with dxe5

When they accept we play Ng4, to try winning our pawn back.

Variations 3, 4, 5,6 and 7 can come from this. Let's go over Bf4 first, variation 5. We play Nc6, attacking the pawn once more. They play Nf3 to defend the pawn and we play Bb4+. The reason we play this is because we want to play Qe7 to attack e5 again. If they block with the bishop we can trade and take on e5, so they block with their knight. Now we play Qe7.

If they play a3, saying: "Hey, ya know what's worth more than a pawn? The bishop." And in rebuttal we say: "You don't know how to play chess, dum-dum." Sacrifice the bishop by having the g4-knight take the e-pawn. Now he can't take our bishop because of Nd3 checkmate.

If they instead take the knight, we recapture with the c6-knight. They still can't take the bishop because of Nd3 checkmate. So they take our knight, and before you take with the queen, losing the bishop, you trade the bishop for the knight with check, then take back.

If they play e3 back there instead of a3, we take our pawn back, play some simple chess, and the position is draw-ish.

Let's bring it back to Bb4+, what if they block with Nc3, Variation 4. We trade. Those pawns, if you are new you might not see an error, but those pawns are what are called double isolated pawns. Those pawns are weak, and we can take advantage of that later in the game. We play Qe7, now there's only one way for white to save the pawn, with Qd5. We play d6, they are forced to take or we win the pawn back. After they take, recapture with the knight, the queen moves and we play e6, this is likely a draw after some standard chess.

Let's rewind back to when they took the pawn and we played Ng4, they have the Nf3 option immediately. We play Nc6 again, and this will likely turn into the previous variation. We have another interesting, "mini" gambit with d6. If they accept, we can sacrifice the knight on f2, to check the king with Bg3+ and win the queen. Only do this if your opponent you know is bad.

Variation 6, e4(The Alekhine Variation)

Let's go back to Ng4. They will play e4, giving the pawn back. We accept and after f4, we play the knight to c6. We will play Bb4+ if possible and play normal chess.

Variation 2, push with d5

When we offer the gambit, they can decline with d5. We play Bc5. We have a trap here if they play Bg5. The best way to do this is to just win a pawn with brilliant Bxf2+!! When they take we play Ng4+, an attack on their bishop, after the king moves we take the bishop and are up a pawn with a superior position. If instead of taking the sacrifice and playing Kd2, we play Ne4+ winning the bishop for free.

This can also happen in a different sequence, for example, if they haven't played Nf3, instead of Bg5 they play Nc3, play d6, and now if Bg5 we have the same Bxf2+. Keep this in mind as soon as we initiate the gambit, if they don't push or accept, we will take their pawn. For example if after we gambit the pawn with e5, they play Nc3, we take. If they play Nf3 though, push e4.

You just learned the second trappiest gambit, second to the one and only Stafford Gambit itself. Good luck, I hope you play a bunch of bozos and win against a buncha people with opening, ya hear? Good luck, and bye.