My understanding is the Damiano verges on being playable.
Yes.
It is just about one step short of refuted.
Note that White could have gotten a winning game right in the opening in that Fischer game.
8. Nc3! Qxc2 9. Qd4! is winning for White. The Black Queen is trapped.
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If white plays correctly from the start and has a decent plan, which is fairly easy to learn against the Damiano, black will have an awful game. Black has to be hoping that White doesn't know the theory and slips up in some way, as Fischer did.
Even stockfish, which is usually kind to bad openings, has +2 for white immediately. I know computers don't mean everything but they mean something, and the Damiano is pretty bad.
I play the Englund but It is hard. I recomend learning the Italian.
the englund is a black opening
Everybody thinks so, until they face a strong player who plays in the spirit of Paul Morphy.
I think it was either Socrates or Nietzsche who said "There's no stupid gambits...... there's just stupid players."
> says all gambits are stupid
> posts a gambit with a forced loss
> refuses to elaborate
> leaves
And you have mutch worse openings
Today i faced Bush-Grass, Small Center Pirc and Owen. Thre openings that shouldnt be played at my level anymore. So i had th block these 3 trolls so i dont face themanymore. I gave up hope the will ever learn chess and play not stupid openings
A few weeks ago I played a NM where I moved all my pawns up one square. I won. If you lose to a troll opening you really only have yourself to blame; stop coping and start playing better.
And you have mutch worse openings
Today i faced Bush-Grass, Small Center Pirc and Owen. Thre openings that shouldnt be played at my level anymore. So i had th block these 3 trolls so i dont face themanymore. I gave up hope the will ever learn chess and play not stupid openings
A few weeks ago I played a NM where I moved all my pawns up one square. I won. If you lose to a troll opening you really only have yourself to blame; stop coping and start playing better.
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gambits are stupid
The Queen's Gambit waves "hi".
gambits are stupid
The Queen's Gambit waves "hi".
To be fair the Queen's Gambit isn't really a gambit. Black simply cannot hold onto the pawn in the QGA unless White screws up.
> says all gambits are stupid
> posts a gambit with a forced loss
> refuses to elaborate
> leaves
> players like B1ZMARK keeps the topic alive even 2 month later for some reason
> says all gambits are stupid
> posts a gambit with a forced loss
> refuses to elaborate
> leaves
> players like B1ZMARK keeps the topic alive even 2 month later for some reason
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gambits are stupid
The Queen's Gambit waves "hi".
To be fair the Queen's Gambit isn't really a gambit. Black simply cannot hold onto the pawn in the QGA unless White screws up.
then the benko, evans or the marshall gambits?
I kinda agree with this post, almost all gambits are dumb and makes you lose material for no reason, the only good gambit is the Intercontinental ballistic missile gambit
Well. Let’s make a very very clear distinction here. Unsound gambits are stupid. The Marshall Attack isn’t stupid, the Evan’s Gambit isn’t stupid, the Basman-Palatnik Double Pawn Gambit isn’t stupid, the Goring Gambit Double Pawn Sacrifice isn’t stupid, the Fingerslip Winawer Kunin Double Pawn Gambit isn’t stupid, et cetera. If the gambit is sound, it’s dangerous.
Eric Rosen’s stafford gambit is also very deadly.
Eric Rosen’s stafford gambit is also very deadly.
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gambits are stupid
The Queen's Gambit waves "hi".
To be fair the Queen's Gambit isn't really a gambit. Black simply cannot hold onto the pawn in the QGA unless White screws up.
then the benko, evans or the marshall gambits?
Yeah I wasn't agreeing with the OP, just pointing out that if we're going to talk about gambits we should talk about actual gambits and not an opening that was misnamed 500 years ago.
I'd throw in the Morra as an actual gambit that is pretty good.
And you have mutch worse openings
Today i faced Bush-Grass, Small Center Pirc and Owen. Thre openings that shouldnt be played at my level anymore. So i had th block these 3 trolls so i dont face themanymore. I gave up hope the will ever learn chess and play not stupid openings
i feel you man... i nearly quit chess because i got so tired of trolls and no matter how high i climbed, i never saw any change. Even when i was playing people over 2000 i would rarely get an actual opening and would typically get some trash that either was trendy (because a streamer was cramming it down their followers throats) or some opening that only computers can really refute. i recommend getting to about 2100 on lichess. the player pool there is much more mature and serious about learning. once i turned away from chess.com, i never looked back.
best of luck if you take the lichess route.