My first impressions of Halloween Gambit

When your opponent just gives you a winning position on moves 5 and 6 you can't say the opening choice had anything at all to do with what occured in the game. At your level it rarely will matter very much to be honest.

The computer's right, 20.f3 is an innaccuracy. It's aimless and gives your opponent an unnecessary chance to penetrate with his Rook, which is bound to happen when you let your opponent contol the file like that. I know you didn't have much time, but with a little more experience you won't even need to think about the position and be able to play a better move like Rfe1 anyway.

obviuosly, it's great.

Fissionfowl, i could point you out a few GM games where they lost to this gambit. It certainly is not crappy, as Atos said, it is a gambit which aims to confuse your opponent and usually it does so, if your opponent is not vary of it.

There are no recorded GM games in official competition with this gambit, and few if any master games.

What atos said ^^. And anyway, I didn't say anything about whether it is or isn't. And if you mean moves 5 and 6 by Black were down to him being confused by the opening, then I'd have to disagree and say it's mostly because of poor tactical ability, plain and simple. 

Oh then i got you wrong, fission, sorry.

Atos, i know you well, please don't troll around in this thread like you do in every thread you write to

Or maybe it is just your nature to respond so coldly

I think that what he is refering to is a certain chess program that played the Halloween on an Internet site in blitz and beat some masters with it, but that was due to the program not to the gambit.

What do you want ?

I don't get you quite well, Atos

I didn't make any comments about you, I was talking about the gambit. Please keep it likewise.

I'm sorry, but you just write your comments so that it seems that the deepest purpose of the message is to insult whoever you are talking to

Please don't go offtopic here.

Instead of switching to inane personal attacks, why not post those GM games in Halloween gambit that you promised ?

I don't think there's any GM games which have Halloween Gambit as opening, Atos, and you know that well. If there still are some, i don't think they are recorded. I think it's impossible to find master games of Halloween Gambit, but maybe some high-level matches could be findable if someone with unlimited access to Game Explorer would take his time and go look.

There are 3 Halloween Gambit games in the Opening Explorer. One is a 7-move draw, the other two are wins by Black in 30 moves (1890) and 33 moves (2002).

There is a very small number of tournament games featuring the Halloween, and none involving GMs I think. I seem to remember having read that there was a chess program a few years ago that used it in Internet blitz on some website and scored some wins with it against masters but I don't have the source at hand.