Battling the From

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StrategicusRex

Here's a couple From Gambit games I played with a friend of mine.  He's a real gambiteer, and playing him is always fun even when I lose.  I'm also terrible at open positions, so I often blunder the game away.  Not this time though!  I won both of these!  He had black in both.

The 2nd one I think I REALLY should have lost it.

 

I'm still a beginner and I really have no idea how to play against the From.  All this was by ear.

 

DimKnight

It's not terribly popular, but there's a very good way to decline the From Gambit: 3 Nf3 dxe5 4 e4, resulting in positions that resemble the King's Gambit Declined.

See http://www.oocities.com/drawyah/ for more theory than you can ever use on this line.