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Hey guys! Welcome to Gambit's Friday Chess Lessons. Today let's talk about the Italian Game.The Italian game begins with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4. The point is to control the center quickly with your pawn and knight and then put your bishop on its most dangerous square. You are also preparing to castle to safety. Some of the history behind the Italian Game is that it is one of the oldest recorded chess openings; it occurs in the Göttingen manuscript and was developed by players such as Damiano and Polerio in the 16th century, and later by Greco in 1620, who gave the game its main line. It has been extensively analyzed for more than 300 years. Well, that's it for today. Bye!

So for those this year who have already had a birthday, or will have one later this year, here's the list. If I didn't get you leave ur birthday in the comments JANUARY: MenaceRC (Jan. 29th) FEBRUARY Young-heiny (Feb 19th) MARCH                                                                                                                                                   tbd APRIL tbd MAY tbd JUNE StarWarsRules5 (June 14th) JULY tbd AUGUST tbd SEPTEMBER tbd OCTOBER tbd NOVEMBER TheQueensGambit _035 (Nov 14th) DECEMBER GM_DrSpeedy (Dec 13th) This is the list so far. Please let me know what ur birthday is in the comments!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

So I wanna start being more educational in this club as well as having fun so today we're going to discuss The Queen's Gambit and the best way to fight against it. The Queen's Gambit is like all gambits, it begins with an offer to sacrifice material. In this case, white offers a wing pawn in exchange for better control of the center. It's called the Queen's Gambit because it begins with the queen's pawn (as opposed to the King's Gambit, which starts with 1. e4). Now, the best way to counter it would be The Ragozin Variation. It is the most popular way (similar to Nimzo-Indian Defense) to decline the Queen's Gambit. It is characterized by pinning the c3 knight and indirectly putting pressure on e4. Black gains a lead in development and his strategic problem is the c8 bishop, which can be solved with either c5 or e5. Well, that's it for Gambit's Friday Chess Lessons. As you would assume now, I'm doing one every Friday. Well, bye!

Hello and Gambit here! I just wanted to make this for those of you who are only members of the club and think someone needs to be banned. Since members cannot ban, we will have to do it. If there is anyone that thinks someone should be banned, you can comment on this or personally message me through Chess.com. All you have to do is just send me a private message and either MenaceRC, GM_DrSpeedy, or I will do it. If it is a member, any of you admins can ban them as well. But if an admin needs banning, either one of us will take care of it. Also, We have an ongoing game named "The Kangaroo". The other team had 8 hours left as of now to vote. If you haven't voted yet and you want to take part in the game, our it will be our turn again tomorrow to vote. Well, bye mate. The owner, TheQueensGambit