What are your top 3 favorite Gambits?
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MidasMage
Aug 1, 2023
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#1
Mine are the halloween gambit, Evans gambit, and the lavatian gambit.
1. Queen’s Gambit
2. Evans Gambit
3.
I don’t like gambits
Tennison, Halloween, Englund
1. Blackburne - Shilling ( 3. ...Nd4 against the Italian game)
2. Englund gambit - only for bullet lol
3.
I don't usually play/like gambits
Aug 2, 2023
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#6
Mine are Reti gambit, Swiss gambit (f4 f5 e4) and Reversed Blumenfeld Gambit
1.Kings Gambit 2. Pyramid Opening 3. Queens Gambit.
Botez gambit by far 
Aug 2, 2023
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#9
1) The Queen's Gambit
2) A Gambit against the Outflank Attack - 1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 Qb6 3.a3 a5 4.Nc3 (instead of 4.c4) axb4 5.axb4 Rxa1 6.Qxa1 Qxb4 7.Na4 f6 (other moves are just outright bad) 8.Bb3 Qd6 9.Nb6 with compensation for the pawn.
3) Staunton Gambit
All other gambits are utter trash!
Aug 2, 2023
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#12
d4iscrazy wrote:
@ThrillerFan nah Benko, Reti, Evans, Karpov Gambit are all 🔥
Accept the Benko Gambit and fianchetto, advantage White.
Evans, Accept and Be7
Never heard of the Karpov Gambit
Reti depends on the line. Seen multiple lines be called the Reti Gambit. 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 dxc4 and 1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 dxe4
badger_song schreef:
There is nothing like the utter joy of playing trash.
And winning with it ! I often lost the post mortem analysis , but I won the games !
ThrillerFan schreef:
sansuk wrote:
Tennison, Halloween, Englund
Trash, trash, and trash!
If you play the main ( trap) lines maybe, but there are so many interesting sidelines.
ThrillerFan wrote:
1) The Queen's Gambit
2) A Gambit against the Outflank Attack - 1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 Qb6 3.a3 a5 4.Nc3 (instead of 4.c4) axb4 5.axb4 Rxa1 6.Qxa1 Qxb4 7.Na4 f6 (other moves are just outright bad) 8.Bb3 Qd6 9.Nb6 with compensation for the pawn.
3) Staunton Gambit
All other gambits are utter trash!
Evan’s Gambit, Benko Gambit >:[
1. Danish Gambit
2. Elephant Gambit
3. Smith Morra Gambit
1. Reti gambit/reversed blumenfeld
2. Queen’s gambit
3. Naselwaus gambit (against the owen)
Honorific mention to:
nyholm attack (against the berlin)
And marshall gambit (in the semi-slav)
2. Queen’s gambit
3. Naselwaus gambit (against the owen)
Honorific mention to:
nyholm attack (against the berlin)
And marshall gambit (in the semi-slav)
I also forgot a gambit in the kronberger sicilian which goes:
1. E4 c5 2. Na3 nc6 3. Bb5 Qc7 4. Nf3 a6 5. Bxc6 Qxc6 and now 6. O-O sacrificing the e4 pawn. After 6. Qxe4 7. D4 cxd4 8. Re1 white gets active pieces.
1. E4 c5 2. Na3 nc6 3. Bb5 Qc7 4. Nf3 a6 5. Bxc6 Qxc6 and now 6. O-O sacrificing the e4 pawn. After 6. Qxe4 7. D4 cxd4 8. Re1 white gets active pieces.
Aug 2, 2023
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#19
d4iscrazy wrote:
ThrillerFan wrote:
d4iscrazy wrote:
@ThrillerFan nah Benko, Reti, Evans, Karpov Gambit are all 🔥
Accept the Benko Gambit and fianchetto, advantage White.
Evans, Accept and Be7
Never heard of the Karpov Gambit
Reti depends on the line. Seen multiple lines be called the Reti Gambit. 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 dxc4 and 1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 dxe4
The Fianchetto Benko isn't even the most challenging way to play against the Benko:
I don't know much about the Evans lol, but ok
Karpov Gambit goes like this:
Where white sacs the knight (but gets it back anyway)
Reti Gambit like this (and again, forgot another gambit: Reverse Blumenfeld)
Which is I guess taste for hypermodern stuff but it's good and certainly not 'trash'.
EDIT: Forgot about stuff like 8.a7, either way fianchetto is not the most challenging.
What you claim is the Karpov Gambit is not a Gambit. It's the Open Ruy Lopez.
What you claim is the Reti Gambit is not the Reti Gambit. The two lines I gave have both been referred to as the Reti Gambit. Yours is simply a reverse benoni, or the Advance variation.
