The Blackburne Gambit

The Blackburne Gambit is very rare to come across. In fact, it's so old that it isn't even in some opening books. However, you must be familiar with the opening or you'll be doomed within the first 7 moves. This opening is for black, but my limited understanding of how to make chess puzzles has forced me to have you solve for white. Sorry!

There are some more complex variations, such as Bxf7 instead of Nxf7, but the simplest way for white to avoid the drama is to trade knights in the begining. 4 NxN PxN

Blackburne was an awesome tactical player from England in the 1800s, I believe that I once saw in a  library an ancient book that he had written.  His games would be good for a beginner to study to learn tactics, back in those days defensive techinique was rather poor, so you get to see the brilliancies in the actual game, rather than the footnotes. 

Doesn't anybody have anything to add? There's been 72 views, as of now, and only one person commented on the opening.

I'm not into the Blackburne.

I actually prefer to develop "in a calm way" moving 3...Nf6, getting into the 2 Knights Defense. Then I pray for my opponent to move 4.Ng5 and allow the Traxler.

Have you looked into the KID (King's Indian Defense)? You can develop calmly while getting a good diagonal for your white squared bishop.

4.Nxd4 stops all of it with no discomfort for White; I would guess that's why it isn't found in many books.

the way you set up the trap failed, here it is and then i will post the refutation

here is the refutation of the trap

I know that the knight trade ends the gambit and said so in the text to the right of the gambit. In addtion, after the trade the doubled e-pawn will be impossible to defend. I'm saying that people should know about the opening, not necessarily use it. If white doesn't recognize that the pawn isn't free, he's in trouble. Against a grandmaster, this would obviously be a horrible opening since he or she would be strong enough to see the trap, but against the average player it has the potential to release its full power, especially if he or she haven't seen it before.

Good job. The purpose of me posting this forum was to show people that you have to trade knights and reveal the consequences of not doing so. Since this is the first forum I've made, I do not know how to make different lines nor do I know how to make you solve the puzzle for black. Thanks for helping me out. On a side note, on your second line under 6 Rg1 you wrote "now black is screwed." but black drew white's king to the center of the board and gained a rook in doing so, along with some checks that will earn a passed pawn. Did you mean "now white is screwed."?

It's good to study old chess opening traps to get a feel for what is possible, but as a practical opening it's not real useful.   Pandoflini's book "Traps and Zaps" covers most of these basic double KP traps and is good to develop your tactical chops.  I believe that it behooves any aspiring player to know this area pretty well, whether you actually get to use them or not.  Check out  "Philidor's legacy "for a great opening trap that you may get a chance to actually use.

 yea thats what i meant i will change it sorry