Name as many gambits as possible

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jetoba

directly chess related (and the author of the book or short story)

Von Goom's gambit (Contoski)

Unicorn gambit (Bischoff)

 

not particularly chess related but one I like

Magician's gambit (Eddings)

 

others not particularly chess related

LOTS

 

SebbyMeister

what about jerome

 

rychessmaster1
1e4c6_O-1 wrote:
rychessmaster1 wrote:
1e4c6_O-1 wrote:
rychessmaster1 wrote:

Also, Two Knights Defense

how the hell is that a gambit???

 

....Ng5 winning either a pawn or the game?

no lol

 

White is up a pawn there.....

So it’s a gambit....

FarewellToKings2112

Cochrane gambit (and no I don't think anyone has said it yet @rychessmaster1)

 

Fromper

Alapin Gambit

Elephant Gambit

The symmetric Petroff gambit for black that I don't remember the name of right now (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4). Yes, that's an actual gambit, even though 99% of the games in it are just beginners blundering into it. I know a 1900 level USCF player who specializes in this as black, and has even convinced a grandmaster to stop playing into it in simuls, out of fear that it may actually be sound.

Ryder Gambit 

Soller Gambit 

Zilbermintz Gambit  

I swear I didn't intentionally list these alphabetically. I put them in the order I thought of them.

Fromper

There's also the Swiss Gambit and Batman Gambit, but those aren't chess openings.

JackRoach

Actually there is a Swiss Gambit in chess.

 

Fromper

And as a former 1. f4 player, I probably should have remembered that from studying the opening, although I never actually played that variation.  

But most people use the Swiss Gambit as a joke term to refer to someone losing their first game in a Swiss tourney to get easier pairings the rest of the way. 

JackRoach

Lol. Yeah someone on another forum said they thought the Swiss Gambit was named the way it was because it has so many holes, like swiss cheese.

TheOtherCreep

Stafford Gambit, Halloween Gambit, Froms Gambit: Bird Opening, Duras Gambit (1.e4 1.f5) Queens Gambit, Kings Gambit,  Vampire Gambit, Vienna Gambit: (Main Line, Accepted, Failed Decline, Gambit Declined.), Budapest Gambit, Evans Gambit, Grob Gambit, Irish Gambit, Scotch Game: Goring Gambit, Smith-Morra Gambit ( Silllican defense) Urusov Gambit (Petrov or not Petrov) Albin Counter Gambit, Lativan Gambit,  Englund Gambit,  Blackmer-Diemer Gambit (1.d4,1,d4,2.e5????) Danish gambit,  Benko Gambit,  Blackburne-Shilling Gambit,  Minler Barry Gambit

rychessmaster1
carokannforlife wrote:

Cochrane gambit (and no I don't think anyone has said it yet @rychessmaster1)

 

Ah yes that’s what it’s called 

rychessmaster1
TheOtherCreep wrote:

Stafford Gambit, Halloween Gambit, Froms Gambit: Bird Opening, Duras Gambit (1.e4 1.f5) Queens Gambit, Kings Gambit,  Vampire Gambit, Vienna Gambit: (Main Line, Accepted, Failed Decline, Gambit Declined.), Budapest Gambit, Evans Gambit, Grob Gambit, Irish Gambit, Scotch Game: Goring Gambit, Smith-Morra Gambit ( Silllican defense) Urusov Gambit (Petrov or not Petrov) Albin Counter Gambit, Lativan Gambit,  Englund Gambit,  Blackmer-Diemer Gambit (1.d4,1,d4,2.e5????) Danish gambit,  Benko Gambit,  Blackburne-Shilling Gambit,  Minler Barry Gambit

The birds opening is not a gambit

And if you mean 3... Nd4 in ruy I believe that’s birds defense

rychessmaster1

Grob also isn’t a gambit unless black plays 1... d5

TheOtherCreep

Froms Gambit is a gambit from the Bird's Opening. Black Does e5 not caring about the f4 pawn. it looks like this

you are white and you declie or accept. The best move is supposed stop Qh5+. Or you just decline by doing e3

TheOtherCreep

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pirc42

Bullfrog in german Ochsenfrosch, in us called Bogard i have heard: 1.d4 Nf6 2. g4

TheOtherCreep

failing to decline the Vienna Gambit looks like this

I mean there was a grob gambit in the openings i just know that

Stafford Gambit

Duras Gambit. Its a weird Move by black as it weakens the kings side

Scotch game: Goring Gambit

If people dont know the danish gambit it looks like this

Irish Gambit





 

JackRoach
TheOtherCreep wrote:

failing to decline the Vienna Gambit looks like this

I mean there was a grob gambit in the openings i just know that

Stafford Gambit

Duras Gambit. Its a weird Move by black as it weakens the kings side

Scotch game: Goring Gambit

If people dont know the danish gambit it looks like this

Irish Gambit





 

Every single one of these were mentioned already. I was looking in explorer and found one I think no one said yet: Herrstrom gambit.

JackRoach

Some more not named yet:

Laroche gambit.

Birmingham gambit

Alessi gambit

Hobbs gambit

TheOtherCreep

i just got here so yeah i wont read everything