The "Danish Morra" gambit
The Sicilian defence is one of the most dreaded responses to e4. What's the best way to beat it at intermediate levels?

The "Danish Morra" gambit

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First of all I want to apologize beforehand, as my chess rating is not very high right now (in Blitz is 990), so I just want you to know that I haven't tried this with high rated players yet, so feel free to try this and tell me how it goes :-)

When I was a kid I loved chess, but I didn't have access to the internet and also coudn't find any books that were understandable to me. As a result, I was nothing but a mediocre chess player that knew no game theory and played just for fun. Eventually I had my ass kicked around so much that I decided to stop playing chess, as I found it very positional and, therefore, boring. 

Ten years later or so, YouTube recommended some "chess coffee" video, in which Dannish Gambit was played. I was baffled at that aggresive way of playing, that had nothing to do with the ultra positional and (for me extremely boring) games that made me fall asleep. Fell in love completely with this new concept for me called gambits, that sacrificed a couple of pieces (pawns, for the most of them). 

This is one of my best games using the Dannish Gambit, (If you are a high rated chess player you'll see lots of blunders and probably black just greedily taking pawns won't make lot's of sense for you, but it's just to explain the concept of this opening). It made me extremely happy to win using the opening that made me fall in love with chess again. 

My love for chess was back, stronger than ever before. While when I was a child dind't have lot's of resources, now we have YouTube, and Chess.com has proved to be a huge help for my chess learning process. It's great not having to meet whit anyone to play chess, whenever we want (even at 3 am when I can't sleep). 

Gambits, for us aggresive style players, are awesome, and while they are not normally used by top chess players, some of them have proved to be effective in top chess games, as Kasparov used Evans gambit to smash Viswanathan Anad at Tal's Memorial in 1995. Gambits are one of several openings that we have to know, and are specially fun to play in bullet of blitz games. 

Yes, you're right: I've been rambling about being back at playing chess and nothing has been said about this "Dannish Morra" Gambit idea. One of the openings that I struggle with is playing against the Sicilian Defence, that changed when YouTube recommended a video about the Smith and Morra Gambit. 

It felt really familiar to me, and after thinking for a while an idea came to my mind. Bishops in the Smith and Morra could be used to keep the pressure aiming at the black pieces king's side. So I combined the Smith and Morra with the Dannish Gambit, here is my game (sorry for the blunders )


 I know it's a weird idea combining both of this wild gambits (even more when played against the Sicilian), but I would love you to try it and tell me what you think about it, or if you play that in one of your games as an experiment, tell me how it goes! 

Hello there!!

I stopped playing chess like ten years ago, as I found chess to be really positional and, therefore, boring. I also didn't have the means to improve, as a chess player. 

Years later, I watched a video on YouTube about the Danish Gambit that made me fall in love again with this beautiful art: there is an aggresive way to play that is FUN. 

I am not a GM or IM or even play tournaments yet. I'm a chess amateur that loves playing and is rediscovering this astonishing game. I'll post whatever I find interesting, not to make money or being famous, but to help other chess players and continue developing my chess skills.