The Queens Gambit

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 What are your thoughts on the queens gambit, to sacrifice a queenside pawn, to have an advantage of the game in the longrun?

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not as fun as the king's gambit.

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trigs wrote:

not as fun as the king's gambit.


agreed

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true, but sometimes more useful and less risk

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walterp99 wrote:

 What are your thoughts on the queens gambit, to sacrifice a queenside pawn, to have an advantage of the game in the longrun?


It isn't strictly a sacrifice. Black cannot hold on to the pawn for long anyway.

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HGHG wrote:
walterp99 wrote:

 What are your thoughts on the queens gambit, to sacrifice a queenside pawn, to have an advantage of the game in the longrun?


It isn't strictly a sacrifice. Black cannot hold on to the pawn for long anyway.


Yeah, it's not really a sacrifice since white can win the pawn back by force.  I've won too many games to count where black tried to hold onto the pawn for wayyy too long, cracks me up everytime.