A sound Gambit?

Hi there all viewers!

I enjoy playing highly aggressive openings that lead to exciting middle games where I attempt to outplay my opponent tactically. However I often find that exchanging one pawn for a superior position can fail. Any advice on particular gambits that are aggressive but allow a player to leave the opening with a winning position?

Leave the player that gambited a pawn etc with a winning position? or the other way around ?

If there were an opening that gives a player a winning position then chess would have died 1000 years ago.

King's, Evan's, Korchnoi gambit in the french, Marshal in the Ruy, Slav gambit, Benko gambit, Smith-Morra. These are fairly high quality options.

Budapest, Danish, Wing gambits, and Icelandic gambit are sound or mostly sound options.

Less sound / unsound are Latvian, Cochrane, Halloween and Elephant gambits.

Keep in mind that the opening serves one purpose.  To get to a playable middlegame. 

Afteer reviewing some of your games, you are still falling for basic tactics, hanging pieces, etc.  I would suggest following the opening principles first, before trying to play agressively.

people on chess.com have been brainwashed to think that most of their losses come from losing in the opening

when its just a simple tactical error in the opening

Effective tactical play comes out of strategically superior positions, and not out of dubious gambits, or parthenogenesis.

FTFY

I_Am_Second wrote:

wealybin wrote:

Hi there all viewers!

I enjoy playing highly aggressive openings that lead to exciting middle games where I attempt to outplay my opponent tactically. However I often find that exchanging one pawn for a superior position can fail. Any advice on particular gambits that are aggressive but allow a player to leave the opening with a winning position?

Keep in mind that the opening serves one purpose.  To get to a playable middlegame. 

Afteer reviewing some of your games, you are still falling for basic tactics, hanging pieces, etc.  I would suggest following the opening principles first, before trying to play

Care to name any of those games?

Haha, I suppose there is some truth to it :)

But they shouldn't give up on the french or slav 1 week later ;)

Bet if I look at your most recent game that's 30 move or more... but I've been wrong before.

Youll learn more from you reviewing your own games, than you will from me pointing them out.

No sorry, chess has not been solved yet.

Move 3 loses to a common tactic (3...Qh4+), move 6 violates 2 or 3 opening principals.

Move 11 violates a few opening principals. Moves 12 and 13 give up material.

Stopped looking there.

Sound gambits:

1.Evans' Gambit (black's best is probably to decline with ...Bb6! even here white can get a good game despite the queenside weaknesses)

2.Benko Gambit

3.Smith-Morra

4.From's Gambit (the idea is to open the center for piece pressure against the semi-open files)

5.Tal Gambit (the best continuation against 1.e4,c5 2.f4?!,d5!)

6.Falkbeer Countergambit

7.Staunton Gambit.

Most gambits aren't that great however and Pfren has the correct idea regarding tactics. 

Hey Mr I'm rated 1800 but my blitz rating is 1300.

5.0-0 doesn't lose the bishop.

Correct...the comment was supposed to for 6.Bb3.  I have this issue occasionally when a comment meant for a move will end up under another move.

K, my bad.