Most dangerous gambit

Why Not the tennison's gambit??

So... wait. No one is gonna mention the Cochrane gambit?

I think the Schliemann 3... f5 against the Lopez is a very strong response and certainly leads to many interesting games & positions.  I dont think Ive ever played a single game against that line that was ever dull or boring.  Many lopez players might not be aware of the "dreaded" Schliemann if they always face 3.. a6 instead.  

e4 e5  Nf3 Nc6  Bb5  f5!  Nc3?!  (d3 might be the safest)  Nd4! (instead of fxe) 

Very interesting position !!

The most dangerous gambit is obviously the Queens Gambit  1. d4  d5  2. c4 as it is a very sound gambit

played by the top players.

One of the SHARPEST gambits is, as some other players have stated, the DOUBLE MUZIO. A line of the King's Gambit and the Muzio Gambit, Black needs very accurate play to not get wiped off the face of the earth.

The queen's gambit is a gambit. You can hold on to the pawn, but you will have bad pawn structure if you choose to do so. It is still a very playable position, and you can easily accept the queen's gambit.

As much as i disdain the Queens Gambit, Professor Gobbles is right.
According to wikipedia, a gambit is "a chess opening in which a player sacrifices material with the aim of achieving a subsequent positional advantage".

The Queens Gambit does in fact gambit their c pawn away, and while it is true that black cannot retain this pawn without incurring a positional or material disadvantage, the initial sacrifice does make it count as a gambit.

I like to think Evans Gambit and Kings Gambit are super dangerous. Evans is a stockpile of attacks on the black king, and king's gambit is just a classic fun opening. Obviously, we are talking about lower ratings, as most gambits should be avoided at a high level. Queen's Gambit is played because it's great for space and it's not a real gambit. Tarrasch gambit is some potential activity. 

A trap for the Bishop's opening

lol

Evan's Gambit is not dangerous at all if you know how to play against it. You can easily get a normal easy position against it by playing the Anderssen Variation

Schneider gambit

Duras gambit

And this one

Halloween gambit is very dangerous, but deadly if the other player doesn't know what they are doing.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/4163908889?tab=report

Halloween gambit is good if the other player has not memorized book lines.

latvian gambit SUCKS! as a king's gambit player, once the surprise of mating half of my opponents in under 20 moves wore off, I found myself losing games very quickly with it. when i tried studying a book on it, i was HORRIFIED to see that a lot of it was letting white destroy your castling ability while chasing your queen all over and developing all of his pieces. 

I can't wait to study the BETTER ...f5! lines like schlieman/jaenish, rousseau & luccini etc. gambits which are quite strong. go to youtube and check  these gambiteers out. 

https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanSchrantz

https://www.youtube.com/@GothamChess 

they've helped me find new gambits I can't wait to learn and DON'T do the stodgy "gambits are unsound" grandmaster LIE that has no basis in reality under 2000 where "unsound gambits" like BDG & king's perform at +8% or better generally. you want to beat king's gambit?  the best reply is the falkbeer counter gambit! it has the strongest stats because amateurs don't play perfect and good attackers know how to pounce. in fact, i have an EASIER time playing 1800s with my "unsound gambits" because they play 1/10th pawn GM snail chess and/or have forgotten how to beat gambits. i held at 1800 a long time before slipping back into amateur kamikazeville where weird OOB moves trip me up bad. 1800s play too safe for their own goods in my experience as one for about 50 games.

haters want to hate "my" zeller ice queen (in the blakmar diemer) theory because IF black plays correctly, he can get to -3, but MOST players don't so practical results are something like 70% win rate. it's funny how "unsound lines" can win at 70%. i've seen more than one position where gambiteers are down as much as 5 points, yet are winning 60:40 OTB! 

go to lichess' opening explorer and filter out players over 2000 to see just how well ANY opening performs in the real world against 1600-2000 players mostly playing others at the same rating. that's where i got the ice queen theory from... just following the trail of corpses to the moves that pick everyone off until only the strongest lines prevail. besides that, that's how you get all of the out of book theory you need that GMs can't be bothered with because it's beneath their smug snooty standards.

cracked me up when i saw a story featuring hikaru and another GM missing mates in 1! gotta love the youtube video with a 1700 smashing a GM in the smith morra too.

go my fellow gambiteers go!

looking at halloween gambit stats (was thinking of frankenstein/dracula gambit) it doesn't perform well for a gambit. the main lines play out close to 50:50 with some starting to favor black by move 8. it's totally PLAYABLE, but their are gambit lines that score 70% and up. those are what i'd consider vicious.

check THESE stats out:

65% win rate by move #4!!! unsound my furry exit! haters gonna hate, but the numbers don't lie. check John & Gotham out. they have a bunch of lines like this as does a guy I'm guessing lives in India who likes trappy openings.

the main line only gets better...

4...Nc6 is the "refutation", but it's just a mere fraction of the 72% lines AND at 40:58, the fraction gets even smaller because white can win there too. If you're a gambiteer, you're cool with risk. it's funny how GM parrots are terrified of non-existent theoretical opponents who never make mistakes. i love "unsound theory" that punishes amateur mistakes. 

thank you Qe2 players for blazing that trail and leaving behind the forensic evidence of all the ways black screws up. i bet the BDG performs even stronger via the scandinavian move order where I play it because NO ONE plays it and I'm a scandinavian player. can't wait to start playing 1...e5 though

that's  4487 games that score 72%+ vs a mere 540 that score 41%... hold on... going to convert apples and oranges into fruit juice here... roughly 3240 wins vs 1247 losses and 221 wins vs 331 losses for a total of 3460 wins to 1578 losses before the stats improve with 92% scoring 5...Qd7??. that's a better than 2:1 win rate for the main line, just like the graph shows. yeah... i'm sooo afraid of the "perfect move" that only wins 1 out of 3 times.... ooooh sooo scared! LOL

ya feel me?

BTW the carnage goes to 85% if black plays 4...Qxd4??

if you play BDG and want to hurt more players while suffering a FEW really hard games you'll have to actually EARN you wins with, start playing the ice queen. with theory, the stats only get better as opponents make mistakes and you don't.

What happened to irish gambit or halloween or double muzio

double muzio?

I'll see you double muzio and raise you a triple... make that a quadruple!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7rpGv0Ax-s