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10 Dec 06

Stockton

Joined: 28 Sep 06
Moves: 6883

11 Dec 06

Originally posted by cmsMaster
I've started one

Game 2867958

Anybody else want to play one?

BTW:Unrated setpiece, but don't comment on it anyway.

yea. i'll play it. send the challenge my way.

Dragon Fire

Lord of all beasts

searching for truth

Joined: 06 Jun 06
Moves: 30390

11 Dec 06

Originally posted by cmsMaster
I've started one

Game 2867958

Anybody else want to play one?

BTW:Unrated setpiece, but don't comment on it anyway.

White gives up a whole Knight.

Happy to play black against that, rated or unrated.

vipiu

Joined: 04 Jul 06
Moves: 7174

12 Dec 06

Originally posted by Dragon Fire
White gives up a whole Knight.

Happy to play black against that, rated or unrated.

In Nordic-central gambit, there is a variation where white gives 2 pawns for development(e4 e5 d4 exd4 c3 dxc3 Bc4 cxb2 Bxb2....here he gives a Knight for a pawn, so again 2 pawns...(about the same)

Karricus

Joined: 17 Oct 06
Moves: 1034

12 Dec 06

I've tried this before simply because it's called the Irish gambit. It's not too bad as white can make a lot of nice attacks and gain much space.

Northern Lad

Joined: 07 Nov 04
Moves: 18861

12 Dec 06

Originally posted by cmsMaster
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nxe5 Nxe5 4.d4 I think.

I have to say chess would be a funny old game if white could get away with garbage like that. Fortunately he can't, and among strong players black would score close to 100%. However, I have to admit it does seem to improve slightly played after the 4 Knights Game, i.e. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5??! Nxe5 5.d4 when white does get a little play for the piece though objectively nothing like enough.

Squelchbelch

Joined: 14 Jul 06
Moves: 20541

12 Dec 06

As with any gambit, it depends on the quality of the opposition. I have a feeling that in the game shown above white will be ok😉
Not that it proves anything about the worth of the Chicago Gambit.

Dragon Fire

Lord of all beasts

searching for truth

Joined: 06 Jun 06
Moves: 30390

12 Dec 06

Originally posted by Squelchbelch
As with any gambit, it depends on the quality of the opposition. I have a feeling that in the game shown above white will be ok😉
Not that it proves anything about the worth of the Chicago Gambit.

I'm waiting for the challenge!

omulcusobolani

Joined: 15 Jul 06
Moves: 1598

12 Dec 06

1 edit

I tried to play this:1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5??! Nxe5 5.d4 gambit against rybka in my fritz gui, so I quess it was using fritz's opening book and I thought it was interesting that the opening book tells it not to save the knight, it always plays 5..Bd6. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.g3 black has the option to sacrifice his knight similarly and with 4g3 played the sacrifice doesn't look that dubious, I checked my database and I found some 2600+ played this against Smirin 2600+ and they agreed to a draw quite early.

climb2high

Montréal, Québec

Joined: 18 Sep 06
Moves: 11137

12 Dec 06

Originally posted by cmsMaster
I've started one

Game 2867958

Anybody else want to play one?

BTW:Unrated setpiece, but don't comment on it anyway.

send me a challenge, i'd like to play black vs that...