Budapest Defense Repertoire

This last game transposes from a Buss Gass Gambit into an Omega Osiris Gambit position where Black retreats the N back to f3 after Nc6.

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DarthMusashi

Listed below was one of my earlier Omega-Osiris test games. This one
was played against the chess engine Fritz5.

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DarthMusashi

I do not understand why you are  laughing. The Omega Gambit is a dangerous
opening. See my article at Chessville on the Omega Gambit. My column is
called "The Search for Dragons & Mythical Chess Openings". You have to look
at the games before passing judgement on the opening. I took out Fritz 5
with my Omega Osiris Gambit. See games listed before this comment.

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DarthMusashi

I think you're confusing "won once" with "dangerous".

You don't.

A general comment here - it's always dangerous to accept opening advice from self-described fanboys. You can tell when people are willing to overlook the shortcomings of a particular opening. But if you go ahead and play it, you'll be forced to stare them in the face for a couple of hours, or however long the OTB game lasts.

I've lately been trying to add the budapest as an alternative to the indian complexes in my own openings - to spice things up.  I think that at the rating level of the OP, and myself, this is a perfectly good opening.  It is not unsound - and if you know it better than your opponent, you will have an advantage.  Against the unprepared, it offers significant chances for either an early lead in development, or early sharp tactics that a budapest student can take advantage of.

But Ozzie and other high-rated players bring up an important point from their perspective.  As you improve, your opponents will get better and they WILL be prepared against it.  At that point you will need to replace it in your repertoire, as it will no longer give you as much of an advantage as you had hoped.  Personally, I am fine with that.  I know that day will come as I improve - so I'm also learning the Nimzo and other Indian openings as well so that these can "take over" when my improvement hits that level.

As for what complements the Budapest.  Unfortunately, you need answers to a variety of openings -

1. d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 (Tromp) --> try c5

1. d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 ---> try c5 (a reversed chigorin)

1. d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 ---> try e6, you'll probably end up in some kind of Indian opening -> if they go c4, then you can go with a Queen's Indian, or a Bogo Indian.  If they go with Bg5, you're in Torre where you can try c5 again!

Anyways, no matter what you want, the Budapest is going to be a side-dish.  You can't force it to be the main course.  You've got to pick and choose the responses to the other moves that white is going to make.  For many of these, you'd have to pick and choose them anyways if you had picked a repertoire based on, say, the Nimzo-Indian, so it is work you would have to do anyways.

Hope this helps (probably TLDR)

Justin

You forgot to add that white will probably play c4 to protect the d5 pawn, leaving both pawns weak and likely to be captured. Black will then be up a pawn, will trade all remaining minor pieces, and win the king and pawn endgame.

I usually do not like to trade Queens so early because I favor a kingside attack.
And I do need the Q to do a kingside attack. Trading Queens leads to a drawish
endgame. I would have played 6.exd5 instead of 6.Qxd5.

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DarthMusashi

Several weeks ago my friend National Master Reynolds Takata congratulated me
because he saw the Omega Gambit 1.d4 Nf6 2.e4 on the chessbase video
called "Unorthodox Chess Openngs" by FIDE Master Valeri Lilov. There was one
chapter on the Omega Gambit and he recommended it against players up the
the 2500 level. However I was looking at the video and recognized the games
that he used for this dvd (they were my games) and he did not give me any credit for the games. The Omega Gambit is now part of main stream chess because now it will be assigned an eco code and will appear in opening books
such as Encyclopedia of Openings and Modern Chess Openings.

Also several weeks ago my chess student Freddie tried to bust my Omega
Gambit but lost 20-1 in 5 minute blitz games. In one game I sacrificed 3
pieces to force checkmate with my Omega Gambit. Freddie is pretty
strong because he has taken out players rated 2100+ at chess.com with
his Fred Opening  1.e4 f5 2.exf5 Kf7. Taking the N at c3 is really dangerous
because the black kingside gets compromised.

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DarthMusashi

Back when I played the Budapest Gambit, I enjoyed meeting 2. c4 with 2...e5 and anything else with 2...c5, usually followed by ...b5 and Qa5+.

Most of my lines were computer-generated. Not sure if it has a name, but black's queenside initiative opens the way for many interesting tricks.

Then what do you do against these?

• 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.e3
• 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.c3

Here's a question to the Budapest lovers: What's your favorite line to go into? What's your least favorite line to go into?

To be specific, I would respond to those lines with 3...d5 and play a reversed Queen's gambit. (As a 1.d4 player, I'm comfortable.)

Another common sideline is 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.c4, which forces a transposition to the Anti-Benoni English. Here, I'd play ...cxd4 with the idea of ...e6 and ...Qb6.

Once again, I no longer play this stuff - I'm a much safer player nowadays. Use these lines at your own discretion.

That's a nice trick there.

As you probably guessed, I meant 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. c4. (Oops.)

Yes I did. =)

BlackWaive, what's your answer for post #46?

For all of you who believe that the Budapest is bad, I invite you to take on
the chess engine Houdini 1.5a. (3309) in a 4 game match at game 30 minutes. Houdini will play the Black side in 4 games. You will play the White side. If you are right about the Budapest being bad then you should win this match. However
Houdini 1.5a has never lost to a human being. This match should be played
on at least a dual core computer. You can post those results here. And I will
examine those games with my Houdini 1.5a chess engine.

Some GM's are playing the Budapest. I do not believe if you played the
White side you could beat a GM, an IM or even a Master playing the Budapest.

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DarthMusashi