Halloween Gambit Tournament

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Akuni

I just started a new tournament dedicated to the to the best of chess openings, the Halloween Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nxe5!!!).

 

If you love the Gambit, or just love exciting play come join.

 

http://www.chess.com/tournament/halloween-gambit2

RandomPrecision

You say you're the only person to have mentioned it on the site?  I find 909 Google results for "site:chess.com halloween gambit".  Wink

Sounds awesome, but I don't know if I should start another tournament while my last semester of university is starting. Surprised

KillaBeez

The only reason I won't join is because it is rated.  I can't imagine playing Halloween in correspondence in a rated game.  Maybe OTB, but not here.

Akuni
RandomPrecision wrote:

You say you're the only person to have mentioned it on the site?  I find 909 Google results for "site:chess.com halloween gambit". 

Sounds awesome, but I don't know if I should start another tournament while my last semester of university is starting.


Sorry, I didn't mean to sound arrogant, I was just commenting on how rare it is at any level of play. I never thought to google it with chess.com.

Fianjello

rosario vampire dude is the best chess player of halloween gambit. check his games out. i think hes the reason why halloween gambit got popular

rigamagician

On chess.com, I play the Halloween Gambit as does Gonnosuke, A_DiTora, gambitlover and NM Ernest Colding.  IM Maurits Wind is probably the world's foremost expert.  He organized, and won two email tournies beating such players as GM Vadim Milov.  His brother Michiel plays the Halloween as well.

Akuni

Ah, I've heard of IM Wind, I've read quite a bit of his analysis.

 

I had no idea so many strong players played it here.