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I must be missing something obvious. Danish Declined.

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Ziploxx
Apr 17, 2011
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I'm not a very good chess player yet. I just started playing live on chess.com and seem to be around the 1200 level. I have a small arsenal of openings. My favorite opening for white in this lower level of play is the Danish Gambit. It seems like many players naturally accept it, they don't see it very often, and I like a lot of the lines from it.

So heres 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 c2. Now the only book I've looked at doesn't even discuss this move, so I assume there's an obvious solution from white to it. I don't like fianchetto in the danish because of how powerful queen b3 is, and I feel like it cramps the diagonal. Any help appreciated.  

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Crazychessplaya
Apr 17, 2011
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Either the automatic 5.Qxc2 or something riskier, such as 5.Qd5 or 5.Qh5 comes to mind.

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