Interesting Traps in the Danish Gambit

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The Danish Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3) is a very tricky opening to play as White:

In fact, one of my students recently told me:

“I just hit 2000 elo rapid And it's all because of training and Mastering the openings Especially of Danish gambit !!

Even under 1700 elo players don't even know how to play against Danish gambit !!”

I think that he has a point. This gambit is extremely dangerous because White sacrifices one or two pawns for very quick development and chances to attack. More importantly, it is very hard for Black to catch up with development. Many natural moves fail and leave White with an advantage or a winning position.

To illustrate how dangerous this gambit is, I’ll show some fantastic traps. But since I don’t like to only teach you moves to memorize, we’ll also study the most common ideas in this gambit and the best continuations for Black to avoid problems.

As we’ll learn, Black has some fairly forcing lines that can equalize the position. This is probably one of the reasons why this gambit is not so popular at the top level.

So if you want to learn this tricky gambit and some of its nicest traps, check out my lesson here: https://youtu.be/uswouGmv_Co