Well, pawn e4 is undefended, and it's a bit slow (three moves and no pieces developed). I don't think that's a good combination.
Besides, who says Black's king will end up on the king side?
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ok, i guess you're right but i the point wasn't black's pieces. If black had played Nc6 instead would it be better?
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ok, i guess you're right but i the point wasn't black's pieces. If black had played Nc6 instead would it be better?
Chess doesn't work that way, you don't setup your pieces regardless of what the other guy does.
In that case, after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6!? 3.b3 Nf6, how are you going to cover e4? Qe2 blocks the bishop, Bd3 looks silly, Nc3 blocks the line of sight of Bb2, d3 weakens squares and still doesn't develop a piece. It'd be Black who was attacking... And ignoring the threat to play Bb2 doesn't work either:
If you want to play a very aggressive gambit with the bishop on b2, what about the Danish?
Similar idea, but now White has the better development, so it can actually grow to be dangerous :-)
Unfortunately Black has ways to defuse this (he doesn't need to take), but if your opponent is unaware...
I've always wondered: is it possible to keep the two pawns without black losing by force? I know that in a lot of lines he can get away with giving back 1 pawn but keeping both pawns aren't even in the opening books!
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The Danish Gambit is a fine, albeit risky, opening to play and can catch Black off-guard if he is not prepared. Simply watching you sacrifice 2 pawns for the bishop pair to be developed to marvelous diagonals and having the potential to play moves like Nd2 or Rc1 with speed and ease can be scary.
However, the Schelchter Defence can counter all of this...
As such I recommend playing the Alekhine Variation, nick-named the "Half-Danish".
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Uhm, I don't want you guys to think I still think/ play like this. I posted 7 months ago; since then I've grown quite a bit chess-wise (about 400 points in rating).
You know, I used to think of lines like this too. I noticed that the dark squared bishop in king pawn openings wasn't usually aimed at the king. I used to wonder why 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 b3 was bad, since I would have my pieces aimed at the kingside. the problem is that it's for one very slow and allows moves like ...Nf6 attacking e4 and forcing the passive d3. Also the only way to open the diagonal is to play f4, and the knight already blocks it and black will play ...d5.
Last week the board one on my highschool chess team lost a game in which his opponent used flat-out aggression (he pushed his kingside pawns in the middlegame and broke the defenses of our board one's castled king). This got me thinking about how to exert as much pressure on black's kingside in a game where a draw just won't cut, where a player needs a win. I tried an opening against one of the other members on my chess team knowing that the person I was playing against was brilliant at checkmating and positional sacrifices (not to say he couldn't have blundered). It was a bit awkward, but it did the trick. This is what I came up with:
This lets your kingside pawns assault black and the the diagonal a1-h8 is also controlled. With a queenside castle, all of white's pieces can attack black's kingside. Tell me your thoughts on it.