danish gambit!! - Chess Forums

Pawnpusher3

Oct 14, 2011

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Hey guys, If you were ever in the mood for attacking, you should try this opening out. Its a hell of a lot of fun, and I love to play it when I want to DESTROY my opponent. Now it may not be totally sound (with best play from black, you should only be able to get a draw), but it is quite a powerful line in case black plays incorrectly. There are a lot of traps, and anything can happen.

So the starting moves for the danish gambit (I will look at the accepted lines first, because declining will give white an advantage).

Now, black has 3 main moves, Bb4+, d5, and Nf6. Qg5, although looks good, is pretty much instantly losing. I will put that line in just for kicks lol.

Now, we will look at the Bb4+ line which is quite interesting. There are two choices here, and 1 leads to a very sharp game, while the other leads to a much more "sound" game, where white can maintain a slight advantage.

That basically covers the main ideas in the Bb4+ line. Of course, black can stray from those lines (by not playing Bxc3) but the main idea after that is to play Nd5 and white usually has atleast a pawn advantage there as well.

I will continue this later, but I hope you enjoy looking at that line.

wiski

Oct 14, 2011

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#2

nice

Pawnpusher3

Oct 14, 2011

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#3

Sorry that I didn't do all of it at once. I had dinner. Here is the other part.

d5 is easy to go over because it is the mainline, so there is only 1 correct way to play it. I will toss in 1 trap, for the people who are interested. The trap is actually quite useful, considering that some people only know that d5 is the "equalizing move" in the danish. They don't know how to follow up, so they have to pay with the queen!!! >:D

So thats the mainline.... Now for the Nf6 line, which I consider unsound a little bit, but it is playable.

Here is the line where the knight retreats (just so that it is thourough)

Skofe

Oct 15, 2011

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#4

thanks i might try

Pawnpusher3

Oct 15, 2011

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#5

Cool, good luck with it skofe

FM flashboy2222

Oct 18, 2011

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#6

d5 is always slightly better for black.