Top 7 Aggressive Openings
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Lalit0007
Oct 4, 2015
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#1
Oct 4, 2015
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#8
The first one is super aggressive but the intention is quite clear. What is it called again?
Oct 5, 2015
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#11
TheChessWebsite is a pretty bad source of chess information. The guy says many untrue things in his videos and often advocates to play garbage.
Oct 6, 2015
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#13
Only the Latvian Gambit and Halloween Gambit are pretty much a point for the non-gambiting side. Although the cochrane gambit is pretty dubious too, Scotch Gambit and Evans aren't bad, but black is happy if he plays sensibly.
Oct 6, 2015
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#14
lolurspammed wrote:
Only the Latvian Gambit and Halloween Gambit are pretty much a point for the non-gambiting side. Although the cochrane gambit is pretty dubious too, Scotch Gambit and Evans aren't bad, but black is happy if he plays sensibly.
Problem is, he also claims them to be the top 7 agressive openings.
Top 7 according to who? The Halloween Gambit and the Latvian Gambit in the top 7 is utter hogwash just like you mention, but you are going to tell me that the 4.Ng5 variation of the Two-Knights Defense is more agressive (or more popular - the Subject Line is ambiguous as to which interpretation he means by "Top 7") than say, the Yugoslav Attack? What about the Four Pawns Attack against the King's Indian or Alekhine? What about the Najdorf (for Black)? How about the Grunfeld (again, for Black)?
The 7 he listed aren't the Top 7 Agressive Openings, more like the Top 7 Unsound Openings!
Halloweeen Gambit - Outright Unsound
Latvian Gambit - Dubious at Best
Cochrane Gambit - Dubious at Best
King's Gambit - Dubious at Best
Danish Gambit - Black gets super easy equality! 5...d5! and 6...Nf6 with the Tricky Queen Trade is easy equality for Black. White gets NOTHING!
Two-Knights Defense with 4.Ng5 - Tricky for players at the lower level, but extremely easy equality for Black if he knows anything about the opening.
Evan's Gambit - Equality can be forced, though the way to equality might not quite be as simple as it is in the Two Knights with 4.Ng5 (4.d4 is stronger) or the Danish Gambit, but still White gets nothing if Black really does know what he's doing.
So yes, the OP is Rubbish!
Oct 6, 2015
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#15
Like I said, this list is copied from TheChessWebsite's YouTube video. And that channel isn't very good for chess understanding.
The 2 Knights Defense line doesn't belong unless they're referring to the 2nd player and that pawn sacrifice is more sound than the others on the list.
Oct 6, 2015
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#18
abrahampenrose wrote:
If Aggression is counted without losing pawns, then the Sicilian is probably the most aggressive of all the openings.
Followed closely by the King's Indian.
I'd say others top the King's Indian if you are putting aggression on a scale. Against d4, probably the Modern Benoni and Leningrad Dutch would top the King's Indian, and some would also agrue the Grunfeld, and certain lines of the Semi-Slav Defense, like the Botvinnik Variation (5.Bg5 dxc4). The Noteboom might also fall in that category.