King's Gambit Accepted?

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pfren

3.Bc4 is inferior to 3.Nf3, but the less people know that, the better. No need to reduce the client base without a good reason.

Snackly
Atomic_Rift wrote:
Pen2da_Pixel wrote:
 

I remember one position where it said you sack your knight! I thought it was a crazy idea but there are chances of attack.

 

The knight sack you may be refering to may be the Halloween Gambit.  Another fun one to play in blitz though a good player will beat it easily.

eragonfan125

ok

Ubik42

Moving the knight all the way to f3? Gets me tired just thinking about it.

How about e2 instead? Closer.

Atomic_Rift
SmyslovFan wrote:
Ubik42 wrote:

After 

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4

the only move for white that does NOT lose by force is 3. Be2

That was the subject of an April Fool's story in chessbase. I'm amazed at how many people actually believed it!

xD

eragonfan125
Atomic_Rift wrote:
SmyslovFan wrote:
Ubik42 wrote:

After 

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4

the only move for white that does NOT lose by force is 3. Be2

That was the subject of an April Fool's story in chessbase. I'm amazed at how many people actually believed it!

xD

beleived what? Nf3 and B somwhere are the only moves to prevent Qh4, or to allow Kf1 after Qh4

Atomic_Rift
eragonfan125 wrote:
Atomic_Rift wrote:
SmyslovFan wrote:
Ubik42 wrote:

After 

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4

the only move for white that does NOT lose by force is 3. Be2

That was the subject of an April Fool's story in chessbase. I'm amazed at how many people actually believed it!

xD

beleived what? Nf3 and B somwhere are the only moves to prevent Qh4, or to allow Kf1 after Qh4

I know! I think it's funny that it was April Fool's Day and he thought they were fooling around when they were serious! xD

eragonfan125

Is the best reply to BE7 H4?



tyrannymutation
eragonfan125 wrote:

Is the best reply to BE7 H4?

No, it creates big holes in White's kingside at g3 and g4 which Black can exploit with ...Nf6 and ...Nh5 and also by ...Bg4 (after ...d5 of course)

AndyClifton

Whoo!!!  Cool album... Laughing

eragonfan125
tyrannymutation wrote:
eragonfan125 wrote:

Is the best reply to BE7 H4?

No, it creates big holes in White's kingside at g3 and g4 which Black can exploit with ...Nf6 and ...Nh5 and also by ...Bg4 (after ...d5 of course)

So what can prevent Bh4?

pfren

You don't have to prevent Bh4+. If you are afraid of such checks, then you are playing the wrong opening.

Your 4.h4 is a positional lemon of the first degree, Black has a big advantage after 4...Nf6 or 4...d5.

AndyClifton

Yep, true enough.

tyrannymutation
pfren wrote:

You don't have to prevent Bh4+. If you are afraid of such checks, then you are playing the wrong opening.

Your 4.h4 is a positional lemon of the first degree, Black has a big advantage after 4...Nf6 or 4...d5.

@eragonfan125 instead of preventing ...Bh4+ White's best is 4. Bc4, which allows him to respond to ...Bh4+ with Kf1.  Instead of ...Bh4+ Black will often play 4...Nf6 instead.

AndyClifton

Or you can always play that 3-Pawn Gambit thing (like Morphy always did).

tyrannymutation
AndyClifton wrote:

Or you can always play that 3-Pawn Gambit thing (like Morphy always did).

Yeah I didn't want to get it into that but rather keep it simple.  For the benefit of eragonfan125 the 3-pawn gambit variation is as follows:

eragonfan125

THX

LuisroSdo

What about 3. Be7  4. d4 Bh4  5. Nxh4 Qxh4? I've always wondered what to do in that case...

eragonfan125

@luisrosdo if you are white you should prevent that position and dont make it happen in the first place.

if your black,

it can be:

g3 fxg3

hxg3 Qxh1

or it can be

g3 fxg3

Bc4 g2+

Ke2 gxh1=Q

eragonfan125

@noleryer why what did Robert say?