The 1st is a reasonably popular line, even played by strong GM's, from la Bourdounais and Staunton in the early 1800's, to Aronian last year.
[edit] For a while it was thought tha the response 3 ... e5 gave Black a very good game, but it seems Tartakower and those guys was wrong about that.
The 2nd is called the Villemson Gambit, probably inferior, although White scores well in the few games in my DB
Around 2002 some guy (K Shirazi, rating around 2450, probably an IM?) had some success with this in about a half dozen games, and he was the strongest player to ever try this.
Question:
What will happen if white plays 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4?
Or:1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.d4 ?
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