A forum to discuss 960 opening gambits. In 960, there will be opportunities for pawn gambits as there is in SP518. The main difference is that some of these gambits can be more extreme especially for the white player, because rapid positional gains can emerge from specific initial piece placements. Here I think, is a classic example:
Unfortunately the black player chose to play without a computer and so we cannot find out how brilliant this gambit is. Certainly black's next move is to withdraw the bishop, but Bg6? and black's dark bishop is entombed. Any other move and it appears that black's development is delayed or even obstructed. Have a look at some of the alternatives in the move list as an initial starter for this gambit. They are a quick scratch pad of ideas. Mere scribbling.
The central plan white has is to pawn storm on the kingside. White has a little trap that can be activated at any time, so long as white does not initially move the dark bishop nor obstruct it's access to the h6 square. As soon as black decides to develop the dark bishop with g6, white plays Bc1-h6 and the coming exchange snares the black king or rook onto the g7 square. The subsequent white pawn storm on the kingside then takes advantage of black's crippled king or rook. The only necessary move white must play is Nc2, but within no time at all that piece is active perhaps even on the kingside itself. It would even be interesting not to castle the white king if possible so as to utilize black's c4 pawn which conveniently obstructs diagonal attacks on the king
This gambit is going to need a lot of work to establish it's validity. Unfortunately the computer is completely useless at this early stage because the position is too deep for it to calculate a positive plan.
A forum to discuss 960 opening gambits. In 960, there will be opportunities for pawn gambits as there is in SP518. The main difference is that some of these gambits can be more extreme especially for the white player, because rapid positional gains can emerge from specific initial piece placements. Here I think, is a classic example:
Unfortunately the black player chose to play without a computer and so we cannot find out how brilliant this gambit is. Certainly black's next move is to withdraw the bishop, but Bg6? and black's dark bishop is entombed. Any other move and it appears that black's development is delayed or even obstructed. Have a look at some of the alternatives in the move list as an initial starter for this gambit. They are a quick scratch pad of ideas. Mere scribbling.
The central plan white has is to pawn storm on the kingside. White has a little trap that can be activated at any time, so long as white does not initially move the dark bishop nor obstruct it's access to the h6 square. As soon as black decides to develop the dark bishop with g6, white plays Bc1-h6 and the coming exchange snares the black king or rook onto the g7 square. The subsequent white pawn storm on the kingside then takes advantage of black's crippled king or rook. The only necessary move white must play is Nc2, but within no time at all that piece is active perhaps even on the kingside itself. It would even be interesting not to castle the white king if possible so as to utilize black's c4 pawn which conveniently obstructs diagonal attacks on the king
This gambit is going to need a lot of work to establish it's validity. Unfortunately the computer is completely useless at this early stage because the position is too deep for it to calculate a positive plan.
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