Albine counter gambit as black for 90/30 or 60/30 time tournament Vs below 2000 elo?

Spassky played it.

Yeah go for it.

Below 1800, anything's playable.

Here we go again. The delusion that by playing an unusual opening and learning it well you can get results against players a whole class stronger.  It just is not so. Most of the time the stronger player wins ... by playing better chess ... and their opponent's choice of opening makes little difference.

WIll playing the Albin automatically get you good results against players rated under 2000? I doubt it. I am currently rated 1977 OTB, and got close to 2200 for a few years (30 years ago!).  I do not care what opening players genuinely below 1600 strength play against me in slow chess because, so long as I do not blunder, I am going to win, ... just as I will almost always lose against anyone rated 2400 or higher.

It makes no difference to my results whether I face an opening that I know inside out, or make it up as I go along!!  Very often I end up playing whatever theory recommends in an opening I have never faced before. Those GMs and IMs are right when they say that up to 2200 strength other things are much more important than detailed opening preparation.

It is different at higher levels, where your opponent can be assumed to have up-to-date knowledge of both the ideas and specific move orders in the openings they play, and to have a store of new moves and ideas with which to surprise you.

By all means choose an unusual opening and learn it well, so as to get your opponents into positions that you have played more often than them, and studied more than them. But do not  underestimate the ability of strong players to solve problems at the board, and do not let it be a substitute for learning to play strong chess in whatever position you find yourself.

Why don't you play and study good solid openings that are played by grandmasters? Then your knowledge will last a lifetime and you can apply this knoweldge to ALL players, not just patzers. Why learning a dubious opening like Albins Counter Gambit when I can invest my time in learning good and solid chess openings like the Nimzo Indian Defense or Queens Indian or Slav Defense which are played by chess players worldwide in tournaments?

 @keisyzrk +1, @nobi +1

It is interesting that the stronger the player, the more likely they are to give this kind of advice.