If we include intermediate knight moves, it will give a lot of additional "natural" gambits like Goering gambit:
If we include intermediate knight moves, it will give a lot of additional "natural" gambits like Goering gambit:
Let's start to analyze a bit these gambits.
2Cc Symmetrical English -> Liedmann gambit
In this position
the best move for white is, of course, 3. Qxd4. Now, if white wanna really play gambit, the best option might be 3. Nf3. It will give something like that (ev=-0.8):
The Liedmann gambit itself has a similar evaluation.
We have distinguished 12 families of normal central opening hierarchies:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/classification-and-taxonomy-hierarchy-of-normal-central-openings
There is also a natural family of associated gambits.