Kiddie Gambit!

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1 e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nf6 3. QxP+ Be7 with an eventual Nc6 gaining the initiative by making the queen move again is called the kiddie gambit. YES! I understand that 2 Qh5 is a child’s move but black’s play is not childlike. Is it called the kiddie gambit only because white plays like a child?

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Dennis Monokroussos did a video about this a long while back, but it's behind a paywall. I think the beginning is free on youtube, "Knocking out the Matrix". (Matrix Chess is the actual name for Parham's system which he actually taught to a bunch of kids on purpose... You know, because he knew better than GMs and all of the history of theories in chess. Takes a special kind.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_OeiUJQrc