regarding the "unsound smith morra gambit"
i just DESTROYED a 1650+ playing a "normal french" variation of the smith morra where i used my king's gambit/krejcik favorite castle grabbing technique to unpin my f4 knight and just continued with the initiative.
i'm still using the same basic formation theory i started out with, only RUSTY and no longer studied up on my original 40 lines, but am finding it STILL fits like a glove. when i need a piece for a tactic, it's THERE! i needed to use my queen's bishop to f4 (no g5 pins today!) to attack the pawn on my knight's future outpost square, but had pieces ALL OVER IT after castling and Qe2.
i WISH everything i played was that tactically accommodating.
my rating's ALREADY high 1500s! i'm thinking it might be not getting tripped up in the opening by irrational 1300s who test my positional ineptitude.
i won my game my way and will NEVER get reactionaries who keep trying to tell me to embrace positional voodoo main lines i'll NEVER UNDERSTAND (terrible ratings in the french & sicilian WITHOUT gambits) to aim for foofy 1/2 pawn endings i'll never win. what is the point of PLAYING WRONG?! i need tactics, and if i can't have them, i can't play and am not happy.
last time i checked, nakumura plays nothing BUT gambits. i'm not concerned with ratings myself. besides, if i get my ratings from UNSOUND (i am destroying in kings gambit) gambits, then i'm stronger than my ratings indicate EARNING every win THE HARD WAY.
DON'T get me started on re-rating people for blitz chess. my 15 minute rating was 300 points higher than my 10 minute one DESPITE playing at the same pace and never needing the extra 5 minutes, in effect HOBBLING myself with a 5 minute DISADVANTAGE, but my rating was higher.
Cool if YOU don't have the patience, but DON'T FRIGGIN SAY I'M TRYING TO "TRICK" YOU OR SOME STUFF LIKE THAT BRO. My focus was on the OP.