Cochrane Gambit. The Dragon isn't a garbage openings
your favorite garbage opening
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Hmmm...that's a tough one. I'm going to have to go with the reversed Parham attack.
Oct 30, 2015
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#4
Sometimes I bust out the 9. g4 Bxg4?! Dragon. Definitely refuted but impossible to handle in blitz without pure prep.
I'm fond of the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, which I wouldn't call garbage though it is disreputable.I was a kid in Florida when Anthony Santasiere was a force in Miami and proselytized for the BDG as a romantic opening.
If Black plays reasonably -- solid but not cramped -- it's hard for White to show much for the pawn. But if Black's attention wavers, White can whip up a pretty nice attack.
NM ih8sens: 11. Nb3! would be a hard move to find in blitz...
2. Qh5 is lots of laugh but not usefull when the other player just thinks.
It's hard to see the Smith-Morra as a garbage opening when IM Marc Esserman has been regularly trouncing people with it on up to GM Loek von Wely, once a top ten player.
Likewise the Cochrane Gambit, which was played by Topalov against Kramnik in 1999.
There are very few true garbage openings around. As for myself, I can't recall ever playing one.
Well, garbage is probably a relative term -- like calling players 100 points below you "patzers" or "losers".
I thought ih8sens's comment provided a good guideline for garbage: "Definitely refuted but impossible to handle in blitz without pure prep."
Then there are lines like 1.h4, which most players would agree is garbage, but nonetheless is a Nakamura weapon in bullet.
Oct 31, 2015
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#13
I occasionally play the Polish opening...for the novelty. It generally works fine. Many are inexperienced in it, and it "throws them off". But I never use it against a strong competition.
Sodium attack.
1. Na3
80% success rate :)
Oct 31, 2015
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#15
ipcress12 wrote:
Then there are lines like 1.h4, which most players would agree is garbage, but nonetheless is a Nakamura weapon in bullet.
Sometimes I will play either a4 or h4. Often I play both...one and then the other. I do this when I play a lower rated player. Not to mock them, but to give them a handicap. In an OTB game, I would spot them a R.
Got a 100% record aginst the Dutch, always pleased to see that
It has to be 1 f3, 2 Kf2.
Kung_Heder wrote:
Smith Morah Gambit!
Are you kidding?we are talking trash openings,not dangerous gambits.
Latavian Gambit or the crab opening against new chess players