Tactical firestorm: Queen sacrifice

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Time controls 5/0.  A very nice tactical assault gives black the advantage but there's a lot of chess remaining.  Thoughts?

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I spit on you!! You call your self Gambit Knight?? You got 1.e4 e5 and you did not play KG?? Or Danish at least? You are disgrace for your name!

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it has to be noted that gambitknight was black in this game so he couldn't play 2. f4.

 

If I was white against someone who's username is "gambit" anything, I might just feel compelled to play the most boring opening I could find.  maybe 1. Nf3 or the 4 knights game.  Unless the black player is insane enough to play the latvian.

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Oh, my mistake gambitknight. I apologize.

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I've only heard of 1 person on chess.com who's that insane.

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Sssshhhh tony!! We do not speak of Latvian!

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tonydal: Or Shirov for that matter...

Sadly, the Latvian Gambit, though interesting and, potentially, spectacular, is a bit too risky, and more importantly book-intensive, for my tastes.  I love saccing pawns in the opening (King's Gambit, Scotch Gambit, Fantasy Variation, Alekhine-Chartard Gambit), but I'd much rather give myself a little bit of margin to fall back upon.

And, just to be clear, with white I don't think I've played 4 Knights since maybe I was a beginner.  Though I do admit to a certain predeliction for the Italian Game...Undecided