I don't get enough king's pawn defenses to say I get it a lot (Always playing against sicilians). Some decent players fear the fried liver attack, so they develop the bishop before their knight and I get b4 on them. Like stated above though, they are not obliged to take it, but the position is great for white if they decline it anyhow. For a gambit it is highly playable as white at even higher levels.
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I always accept it. and follow up with the Be7/Na5 idea against strong players. Sometimes I play Bd6 against weak players.
GM Bojkov did a real nice 6 part series covering all the nuances of the lines of the gambit. Pretty nice stuff. He covered almost every main line and all the sidelines, as well as lines showing white punishing black for getting greedy with the pawn. They are not terribly old so they are probably really close to the best current theory.
I was playing against white in a game not to many games ago, my opponent accepted a evans gambit. It is not always noticed when it is played correctly because it happens late. I like that I learned this gambit because it is unpredictable to those that are not that advanced.
It is indeed great to learn to handle positions where you are a pawn down, sometimes two, and you can still hold it all down, with great chances to pull a win.
DimebagDerek wrote:
I don't get enough king's pawn defenses to say I get it a lot (Always playing against sicilians). Some decent players fear the fried liver attack, so they develop the bishop before their knight and I get b4 on them. Like stated above though, they are not obliged to take it, but the position is great for white if they decline it anyhow. For a gambit it is highly playable as white at even higher levels.
I think defending against king pawn openings is tough sometimes. Seems like a mistake developing the bishop before the knight, I find myself defending against king pawn openings by developing my bishop before the knight though. I do that if I can tell someone is trying to get at my king too fast.
I develop my bishop before my knight because of OCD
That has nothing to do with getting your opponent to accept an evans gambit though. 
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I don't remember anyone declining it. It creates room for aggressive play soon in the game, and makes room on the center/ queenside for plenty of ideas. Accepted or declined would both be fine for white, I think
Estragon wrote:
Players who aren't familiar with the Evans often decline it because they fear walking into some killer line. So White gets b4 essentially as a free move, but Black is still fine, so declining isn't a bad option.
I disagree because most players see a odd move and take the pawn g5 or b4. At least that is what I have found.
Has anyone here ever been able to get their opponent to accept an evans gambit?Either black or white. It is kind of tricky because the gambit is set up late in the opening.