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CatSoapBot
CatSoapBot
Aug 22, 2023
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#21

Just for the achievement

gik-tally
gik-tally
Aug 22, 2023
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#22

I am HATING the toothless scandinavian and want to "reverse king's gambit" (rousseau, luccini, calabrese, jaenisch/schliemann etc.) so bad! the scandinavian is very positional and not very forcing.

if you play king's gambit too... stick with that, and play "BDGs" against the french, caro and scandinavian

alapin diemer gambit:

MISTAKING that exact formation for the carokann maroczy fantasy variation I was doing terrible in resulted in instant butt kicking stats simply follow king's gambit's "old faithful"...

Nf3/Bc4 & a semi-open f file all barreling in towards Bxf7+ tactics.

again... planning Bc4 and you will OWN the MAJORITY of caros who think they'll be getting away with the usual Nf6/Bg4 pin only to get Bxf7+ed! LOL I have near 2:1 stats in this!

everyone else does better with the 3.Nc3 main line, but I must be weak with my queenside knight because i tend to do badly in openings where queen's knight goes out before the king's one. as a scandinavian player, I never see any BDGs. they are super rare. less sound tennison gambit is much more popular, but still very rare

I like all 3 BDGs for being transpositional and similar to king's gambit targetswise. it's like one system to fight 3 openings to me.

smith morra gambit is always solid, though these days, your opponents are much better booked than a decade ago

the krejcik alekhine isn't the most sound opening, but it's fun wrecking black's castle with king chasing potential

with a temporary lead in development. I'm not into pawns, so "big center" attacks (3x side by side pawns on 4th rank) aren't for me like the 4 pawns attack here

what I'm REALLY loving as black though is no longer stonewalling 1.d4, but just ripping those pawns I hate for being in my way out and getting mobile right away with then englund gambit > hartlaub/charlick variation. i get 85% accuracy more often than not in it!

it's VERY open, MOBILE, pressuring and even FORGIVING because your mobility makes regrouping easy to find a new weakness to poke at and further weaken one's opponents' pawns. as a bonus, if you ever wanted to play the slightly losing stats albin countergambit like I lusted to for over a decade, but didn't like all the fianchettoing options at all, the bonus in this opening is 2.c4 is the 2nd most common reply and then 2...d4 and you've got more crazy tactics and traps to punish the unprepared with there too. the 2...Nc6!? mickenas (sic?) Lithuanian variation has genuine winning stats, but the 3 x pawns in one's face and weirdly placed knight on e7 don't agree with me as much as fully embracing tactics.
 
I think once you watch this video, practice the games, embrace the concepts, you can jump right in having fun playing chess on YOUR TURF. totally confidence inspiring and "i can figure this out!" fun. your opponents are a couple moves away from doing anything really threatening in it and it's easy to blunt and counter. i think it just might be the most tactical gambit i play. that, or the strategic part is simple enough to just keep pushing at white's weakest spot(s) until you crack some eggs
 
I was "92% accurate" in this long game I regret not just simplifying down at a loss to get a simple K+R in the open.
but only got a "78% accurate" in my highest rated and fastest win DESPITE stalefish suggesting NO improvement over "DON'T PLAY THE HARTLAUB-CHARLICK! I HATE YOU! YOU'RE STUPID!"
 
 
stalefish seriously pawnishes (HAHAHAHA!) players' accuracy over this gambit. that's why my accuracy goes up the longer games go... the +-2 1...e5!? needs to get diluted. otherwise, I think if you made stalefish ignore that i'm gambiting on purpose, this is close to a "100%" game to me, but 78% fishy
 
Golden_Sunshine10
Golden_Sunshine10
Aug 22, 2023
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#23
1983B-Boy wrote:

I am HATING the toothless scandinavian and want to "reverse king's gambit" (rousseau, luccini, calabrese, jaenisch/schliemann etc.) so bad! the scandinavian is very positional and not very forcing.

if you play king's gambit too... stick with that, and play "BDGs" against the french, caro and scandinavian

alapin diemer gambit:

MISTAKING that exact formation for the carokann maroczy fantasy variation I was doing terrible in resulted in instant butt kicking stats simply follow king's gambit's "old faithful"...

Nf3/Bc4 & a semi-open f file all barreling in towards Bxf7+ tactics.

again... planning Bc4 and you will OWN the MAJORITY of caros who think they'll be getting away with the usual Nf6/Bg4 pin only to get Bxf7+ed! LOL I have near 2:1 stats in this!

everyone else does better with the 3.Nc3 main line, but I must be weak with my queenside knight because i tend to do badly in openings where queen's knight goes out before the king's one. as a scandinavian player, I never see any BDGs. they are super rare. less sound tennison gambit is much more popular, but still very rare

I like all 3 BDGs for being transpositional and similar to king's gambit targetswise. it's like one system to fight 3 openings to me.

smith morra gambit is always solid, though these days, your opponents are much better booked than a decade ago

the krejcik alekhine isn't the most sound opening, but it's fun wrecking black's castle with king chasing potential

with a temporary lead in development. I'm not into pawns, so "big center" attacks (3x side by side pawns on 4th rank) aren't for me like the 4 pawns attack here

what I'm REALLY loving as black though is no longer stonewalling 1.d4, but just ripping those pawns I hate for being in my way out and getting mobile right away with then englund gambit > hartlaub/charlick variation. i get 85% accuracy more often than not in it!

it's VERY open, MOBILE, pressuring and even FORGIVING because your mobility makes regrouping easy to find a new weakness to poke at and further weaken one's opponents' pawns. as a bonus, if you ever wanted to play the slightly losing stats albin countergambit like I lusted to for over a decade, but didn't like all the fianchettoing options at all, the bonus in this opening is 2.c4 is the 2nd most common reply and then 2...d4 and you've got more crazy tactics and traps to punish the unprepared with there too. the 2...Nc6!? mickenas (sic?) Lithuanian variation has genuine winning stats, but the 3 x pawns in one's face and weirdly placed knight on e7 don't agree with me as much as fully embracing tactics.
 
I think once you watch this video, practice the games, embrace the concepts, you can jump right in having fun playing chess on YOUR TURF. totally confidence inspiring and "i can figure this out!" fun. your opponents are a couple moves away from doing anything really threatening in it and it's easy to blunt and counter. i think it just might be the most tactical gambit i play. that, or the strategic part is simple enough to just keep pushing at white's weakest spot(s) until you crack some eggs
 
I was "92% accurate" in this long game I regret not just simplifying down at a loss to get a simple K+R in the open.
 
but only got a "78% accurate" in my highest rated and fastest win DESPITE stalefish suggesting NO improvement over "DON'T PLAY THE HARTLAUB-CHARLICK! I HATE YOU! YOU'RE STUPID!"
 
 
 
stalefish seriously pawnishes (HAHAHAHA!) players' accuracy over this gambit. that's why my accuracy goes up the longer games go... the +-2 1...e5!? needs to get diluted. otherwise, I think if you made stalefish ignore that i'm gambiting on purpose, this is close to a "100%" game to me, but 78% fishy
 
 

These are really helpful!! Tysm

gik-tally
gik-tally
Aug 24, 2023
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#24

COOL!

I really think you'll like BDGing. it seems most natural to me, especially if you live for quick Nf3/Bc4/Bxf7+s and LIKE (sometimes risky) semi-open f files

Let me know if anything clicks with you and share some of your victories. It's HARD finding gambits because most GMs hate them and not enough players play them to share experience against everything

gik-tally
gik-tally
Aug 24, 2023
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#25

like a couple other players suggested in my hartlaub scharlick thread, the "delayed scandinavian" elephant's gambit is positionally strong and gets at least = stats, but it reminds me too much of both stonewall AND scandinavian which I hate and I QUIT the Qxd5 scandinavian long ago already to play the "more tactical" 2...Nf6 marshall variation.

you also might like 2 knights or fritz as black, and i think I was looking at jaenish/schliemann to pair with that as a repertoire. look into them all and pick which you'd like, but if if you're starting from scratch and are good at memorizing move orders & transpositions, rousseau gambit has awesome stats and is as close to a reversed king's gambit as you're going to get. same goes for calabrese, luccini & jaenish/schliemann & you can always play reversed falkbeer as needed... territory that should be familiar for any kings gambit player. live the life I dream of! be free! LOL

I forgot to share the chess academy video that made me smile before I ever even attempted it:

if you just learn the ideas in this video, and play chess when you gotta in the sidelines, you'll be looking forwards to 1.d4 and even go through withdrawal symptoms when you see another 1.e4

if you find, like me, the french are STILL a pain to face with the alapin diemer, you might really like the WILD, but weird new orthoschnapp gambit too.

i'm sticking with the "good enough" (almost) alapin diemer to 3x BDG, for now. I remember wanting to try the original orthoschnapp (cool sounding name). FORGET the monte carlo gambit! you'll "never get accepted into that casino". no ones runs screaming from a gambit more than french players. they tend to play 1.d4 a lot too which is another why I love the hartlaub/charlick.

LochaSog
LochaSog
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Aug 28, 2023
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#26

1.b6 works against anything and the opponent does not have theory. Plus, it prepares a highly active bishop on b7.

gik-tally
gik-tally
Sep 2, 2023
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#27

the owens IS annoying, but it can be beaten badly too!

94% accuracy. cool!

a bit uglier game

 
i should make a note of memorizing 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. d5 as my stats are 56:44 in 16 games, and then there's ANOTHER line where playing a quick 3.Nc3 and I don't get along at all. I played that 13 times at 23% 
Ethan_Brollier
Ethan_Brollier
Sep 2, 2023
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#28

Against the Owen’s a quick 3. Bd3 4. Nf3 is the way to play it as White.

Sussyguy4890
Sussyguy4890
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Sep 3, 2023
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#29
I do very weird openings for a tactical player I play the modern and the.English for white