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What is this gambit called?

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GrizzlyPwn
1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 cxb2 5. Bxb2 Nf6  I use it as white but unsure what it's called? Thanks in advance!
tmkroll

That is the Danish Gambit.

GrizzlyPwn

Ok thanks. I use it with white but still not sure what to play with black I struggle. Any gambits/openings you'd reccomend with black?

tmkroll

The most popular "refutation" involves taking everything then giving it back. If anything Black is thought to have a small edge due the Queenside majority being supposedly easier to mobilize than White Kingside majority, but it's anyone's games.

This is not what I play, just because I play for fun and this basically turns the gambit into something very boring. Since the Gambit is actually literally not good, you can try to refute it, actually hold a pawn or two and be technically winning but it's what White wants you to try to do and it can end up very complicated and it can end up with Black getting checkmated as I'm sure you know if you play this way with White.

tmkroll

Hm... it occurs to me I read you wrong. You weren't asking what to play against this with Black... well as far as something that pairs with this kind of play from the Black side, I'm not sure anything good is coming to mind. I think perhaps there are things you can do in the Scandinavian, but I don't play it/them. I used to play the Elephant Gambit, but it's not sound. I would seriously recommend against trying the Latvian. Perhaps someone else will help you better.

tmkroll

I thought a bit more about this last night, obviously you can have the Marshall Gambit against the Ruy (among others with more mixed reputations), you have the Two Knights Defense which can be a gambit if White wants it to be but play is very different from most of this other stuff, you can counter gambit against the King's Gambit if you really want to. There is more than one promising gambit in the d5 Ponziani, etc... but these things can go a lot of different ways and you can't always get your gambit. If you're looking for something like the Danish in terms of how often you're going to be able to make the opening you prepared happen on the board, I still think perhaps the Nf6 Scandinavian is what may want to look at first. After 1. e5 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 if White goes 3. c4 to keep the pawn I think perhaps there's one that continues with Black playing c6 (after which there can even be e5, the Ross Gambit which can play something like a reversed Danish) as well as one that goes e6 and some have better reputations than others. Of course White can just let you take the pawn back instead and then play is different. Hope this helps. Good luck.