Why doesn't anyone play it and why doesn't it have a name? Looks pretty good. It prevents c5, and if black accepts the gambit we get faster development and an open file.
accelerated wing gambit
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1Lindamea1
Sep 25, 2023
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#1
I hated wing gambit in the sicilian
lassus_dinnao wrote:
Why doesn't anyone play it and why doesn't it have a name?
Because black can still strike at white's centre with ...c5. The lead in development is ok, but the real point of playing the wing gambit against the French and ...e6 sicilians is to get the advanced french pawn structure except black has no pawn on c7 and so cannot fight against white's big centre. I'd still rather be white in your version, but this is a much worse than the regular wing gambit because black's c-pawn is still on the board.
I don't like advance variations myself because they put one's own pawns in the way of piece attacks, eg. e5 is a really good square for a knight and I like Bc4 with Nf3 and a semi-open f file is always nice too. advance variations close my favorite diagonal off
Sep 27, 2023
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#5
Ok I see guys. I guess the only advantage this variation has is the fact that the position is very simple and has no theory no learn...
lassus_dinnao wrote:
Ok I see guys. I guess the only advantage this variation has is the fact that the position is very simple and has no theory no learn...
I'd say black really needs to learn HIS theory to take advantage of that 1.7 points and stop losing
I'm looking into the white side of this... very promising stats
Looking into it, it leads down a few rabbitholes where white wins, but with bad evaluations and untested waters with weird stockfish ponders that are probably disastrous OTB. if black were to study this, it would prove trouble for white eg.