I dug up a Bronstein gambit gem.
Two knight's defense,at move 8 Bronstein sacs his light squared bishop to establish a big center.Reminded me of the Cochrane Gambit idea.
Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn Pick three openings that fit in with this your chess personality
I find it depends on the phases of the moon. Some days I can't resist the Exchange French, the Exchange Slav, the Symmetrical English or the Hedgehog. Other days, I play the Danish Gambit, the Moscow Gambit, the Fegatello or the Traxler Attacks
Just read a humorous assessment of the BDG.
"Any GM or IM who even dreams of playing the white side of a BDG should wake up and apologise" - James Rizzitano.
Originally posted by AudreyxSophie No one has ever refuted the king gambit.
Yes, they have. White seeks a significant advantage with the KI; Black can equalise fairly easily. Equality for Black after a handful of moves will do for me. I'd call that a refutation of White's ambitions
Originally posted by AudreyxSophie Come on, there is a difference between equalizing and refuting
Not with a gambit, there isn't.
The whole purpose of a gambit is to achieve significant advantage. If a Black-side gambit achieves at least equality, it can be deemed successful. But we'e talking White-side gambits mainly. If Black equalises easily, the gambit is busted. After all, White began with the advantage of the move.
I don't want thing like that game I had with you to happen, I played a gambit, but I did not know about that move, right after I went on wikipédia and find the information about the move and choose to give since I was thrilled to continue the game. NOt like i knew about Qe7, and that traxler, not like I was very thrilled, i don't know enough to play so i stopped right away, but I don't want to have to give up since i'm not ready for those things...
Maarten de Zeeuw's five articles on the Traxler in New in Chess are available on the internet:
www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/pdf/YB63_146.pdf
www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/pdf/YB65_137.pdf
www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/pdf/YB66_113.pdf
www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/pdf/YB67_130.pdf
www.newinchess.com/Yearbook/pdf/YB68_142.pdf
These five articles cover the mainlines of the Traxler and are a good introduction to this opening. Keep in mind that de Zeeuw was attempting to refute the Traxler (he claims it but he hasn't done it here), some of his analysis is faulty.
Originally posted by atticus2 Not with a gambit, there isn't.
The whole purpose of a gambit is to achieve significant advantage. If a Black-side gambit achieves at least equality, it can be deemed successful. But we'e talking White-side gambits mainly. If Black equalises easily, the gambit is busted. After all, White began with the advantage of the move.
Incorrect, the point (at least this should be the point, at anything other than the master level)of any opening a player plays is to get a playable position which they are comfortable playing
I want to play Evans gambit, blackmar diemer gambit, traxler gambit, letvian gambit and such opening, but I don't know where I can find books or review on these opening, cochrane gambit was looking good too.
I just don't want to play opening that are really refuted.
I was already confused after the first two gambits you listed, as Evan's gambit is a 1.e4 e5 gambit, while the Blackmar-Diemer gambit is a 1.d4 d5 gambit, unless you plan on transposing to the latter when facing the Scandinavian with 1.e4 d5 2.d4. You may want to become a member of the Internet Chess Club and check out GM Boris Alterman's series "Gambit Guide", which covers many gambits.
Well in any case, I highly recommend you join the Internet Chess Club, as Boris Alterman's video series covers many of the gambits you listed in your first post, and GM-Elect Alex Lenderman has a nice three part series on the Smith-Morra Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3) that you should look at as well. As far as books go, you should go to amazon.com and type in the name of the gambit you are looking for, and you should be able to find a book on it. GM Nigel Davies has developed an opening repertoire for white and black in his books Gambiteer I (gambit repertoire for white) and Gambiteer II (gambit repertoire for black)