John Tracy Gambit

Accidentally blundered my e pawn on second move, but guess it's an official opening, actually worked out well for me.

Like..... What???? Shen-ma!

2.e4 is more of an official blunder than an official opening: Black just is a pawn up for nothing.

But the rest of the game is ample proof that everything can happen at that level.

Instead of appearing agressive, you should work on not losing to 700 players.

who was John Tracy? Can't find anything, anywhere

Maybe he's the person who played the match.

He's the guy fro thunderbirds

Might as well be called the Dick Tracy gambit. 

There's a great story about Fischer losing to some guy in this at a simul. He said it was a 'blindspot?' so maybe he was just playing all his first moves very quickly and didn't really see the board? 

Chicago Tribune, March 24th 1964, Sect.3 p.1: 

<A sailor from Great Lakes Naval Training station using a new technique - the conference method - was the only one of 54 chess players to defeat Bobby Fischer, former national champion, last night in the final of the young grand master's two-day chess marathon in the Edgewater Beach hotel. Fischer, 21, lost to Gary Thornell, described by a member of the Chicago Chess Foundation as an average player, during a five-hour session last night after he had won 56 games, drawn 11 and lost four matches Sunday in a 9 1/2-hour session. Three grand masters stood behind Thornell and when Fischer turned away, they coached the sailor. At the conclusion of the evening's play Fischer, who drew four games besides losing to Thornell, said the Chicago players were the best he has faced during his nationwide tour.>

- quoted from a comment from MissScarlett 11/24/17 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1255155

Dick Tracy? Indeed 2.e4 is a d... move!

LOL AHAHAHAH

lol

comes out of the alekhine

The Halloween Gambit is really bad

This is all I can see white trying for here.

Like a reverse stafford but black has not played e5.