Small advantage? White gains more than a small advantage, we're not talking about black ending up with a position as decent as the one he gets in the mainline Scandinavian. Which gives white a small advantage.
Latvian Gambit Study Partners?
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Dec 21, 2011
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If you want to discuss that do it somewhere else, I'm looking for a study partner
The Latvian Gambit is very close to refuted. Outside of one line it is suffering horribly. When you talk about the best line of the Latvian Gambit, you are talking about a line where black survives the opening and is fighting for a draw in a pawn down endgame. I would have no problem playing the white side.
I mean you can play it if you want. You will win some really cool games, but be warned that you will have some really horrible losses. Try it out if you like.
Let me see if I can find you a really great source of information on the opening on chesspub.
http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1262014233
Not sure why theformat of their forums have changed, but start on page 10 from the bottom and work backwards. This has everything you need to know about the Latvian with some of the highest practitioners participating in the thread.
Dec 21, 2011
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#11
I wouldn't go that far solomonben. It is a deadly weapon if you know your lines and your opponent doesn't
Dec 21, 2011
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#14
but the whole point of me playing it is the fact that my opponent won't know the lines....
Dec 22, 2011
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#15
In fairness at non master level familiarity with an opening is more important than what opening one plays.
Dec 22, 2011
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#16
yea I'm still deciding what openings to play for the rest of my chess life. Danish gambit looks great but there are no great online sources of infomation on it :/
Dec 22, 2011
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#17
MarcazzarSmish wrote:
If you want to discuss that do it somewhere else, I'm looking for a study partner
It's an open forum. People can do what they want. You started the discussion anyway.
At club level any opeing is good if you know it well. Gather as much information as you can find on it, record your games and look for ways to improve. In time you will probably abandon it but when you do you will know why... and you will have learned some valuable positional analasis skills along the way.
I once knew a 1900 player who knew the Polish Opening (1. b4) inside and out and if you weren't prepared he would mop up the board with you.
A tip would be to gather up a books on opening traps and study the ones for this opening.
Go for it... you may just have a lot of fun.
MarcazzarSmish wrote:
I wouldn't go that far solomonben. It is a deadly weapon if you know your lines and your opponent doesn't
So is this...
Dec 22, 2011
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Arctor that is very easily defused with Nc6. Sure it's great if ur opponent doesn't know it but the chances of that are small. Much fewer people know the latvian gambit. Out of the 2500 games I have played in live and online chess, I only first came across it very recently.
ty for ur advice czechman01, its greatly appriciated :)
fissionfowl, I was asking the forum about studying the Latvian, not advantages in the latvian like Trickolov was saying.
Does anyone want to study and try out variations of the latvian gambit in live/online chess?
If you don't know it it is like the Ruy Lopez Schliemann Defence. Or a Kings Gambit for Black. Top players say it is dubious and unsound but with best play white can only gain a small advantage but there are many mistakes white can make along the way which makes it such a powerful weapon at club level.
It plays e4 e5 Nf3 f5!?