Horrible. You use the time gained by the gambit to play a pretty useless move. Black looks pretty fine here even if they don't try to hold the pawn.
Why are you so keen on playing h3? Develop.
A new idea against Scandinavian Defense 1.e4 d5 2. h3?!
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After 1.e4 d5 2.h3 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nge2 Black just lets White get his pawn back in order to get a lead in development: 4...e5 5. Ng3 Be6 6. Nxe4 Nxe4 7. Nxe4 Nc6 when 8. Bb5?! is met by 8...Qd5
If you want something "psychological" even against the "classic Scandinavian" then after 3...Qa5 4. a3 is something to consider. This has the advantage of having been played by highly respected GM Kholmov who (not with this line of course) even beat Bobby Fischer in his day.
So you're sacrificing a center pawn and a tempo for the move h3... this seems rather... insane 
I prefer 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.h3
Thats a hell of a idea!!! I am so anxious to try it OTB against strong masters.
if you w
ant to play a gambit against the scandanavian at least..
Apr 29, 2013
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Really nice. Except that I have put this 1 e4 d5 2 h3 system years ago, back in 1994. I once played 1 e4 d5 2 b4 against Rich Grogan, but he chickened out with 2...e6.
The proper spelling is Zilbermints, not Zilbermint. It is an old Polish Jewish surname going back to the early 19th century.
I know this post is crazy old, but I made a system that will bring you into reverse englund gambit as scandi. And look, its not by the computer a sound opening but it's full of many tricks and surprises to scandi players even my level because they hardly play Englund Gambit. It's really fun to play at my level but you can always get caught, but you can transpose into reverse zilmermints in this fashion. Most of the time you will get the setup you want at my level. The order can be different too they can take your pawn and then develop the knight attack queen.
Aug 3, 2021
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Hmmmm, If you want to play a gambit, it is probably a better idea to look into gambits that accelerate development. The englund gambit is dicey and only is somewhat viable (idk about that but i'll give you the benefit of the doubt) as a position for black because you are trying to increase the development. Trying to get the englund gambit as white is just giving up the development adv. which the englund gambit is trying to get. Anyway I hope I helped.
Why do so many players decide to play very bad moves and then decide they have done something "good"????
Aug 4, 2021
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James West plays the Philidor Counter Gambit with colors reversed: 1 e3 e5 2 e4 Nf6 3 d3 d5 4 f4
pfren wrote:
checkmatein143 wrote:
I know this post is crazy old, but I made a system that will bring you into reverse englund gambit as scandi. And look, its not by the computer a sound opening but it's full of many tricks and surprises to scandi players even my level because they hardly play Englund Gambit. It's really fun to play at my level but you can always get caught, but you can transpose into reverse zilmermints in this fashion. Most of the time you will get the setup you want at my level. The order can be different too they can take your pawn and then develop the knight attack queen.
Great idea: You have tricked Black falling into a winning position.
Not everyone is an IM you would be surprised at my level or lower how effective it is at bullet and blitz. Its not a thing scandi players have prepared for.
Aug 22, 2021
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A look at chess books shows that after 1 e4 d5 there are possible moves:
2 d4 dxe4 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5 transposes to Polish Gambit - MCO- 15 or 4 f3 to Blackmar-Diemer Gambit;
2 Nf3 leads to the Tennison Gambit;
2 Nc3 leads to the Dunst;
2 f4 de 4 3 Nc3 leads to the Williams Gambit;
2 e5?! leads to a Caro-Kann Defense or French Defense by transposition after 2...e6 3 d4 or 2...c6 3 d4.
As for the claim that 1 e4 d5 2 h3 gives Black a "winning position", where is the analyses? After 2...dxe4 3 Nc3 play may resemble a colors-reversed Englund Gambit complex. Stefan Bucker in his 1988 Englund Gambit book and the late Eric Schiller in his 2002 Unorthodox Chess Openings showed the options available after 1 d4 e5. The line 1 e4 d5 2 h3 is a colors- reversed version, but much of what was written about the original 1 d4 e5 is still good.
Henry Grob published a book about the Englund Gambit in 1968. Hugh E. Myers examined 1 d4 e5 in his Myers Openings Bulletin (1979-1988) and New Myers Openings Bulletin (1993-1996). These books and periodicals are available for purchase on the Internet. Anyone wishing to better play rarely-used openings should find this literature helpful.
Mr. Pfren should play against James West's Philidor Counter Gambit. It would be interesting to see the result.
I have always had problems with Scandinavian Defense . So I created a new system , The Zilbermint Gambit Reversed .
I play Englund gambit 1.d4 e5 with very good result in slow games with this variant known as Zilbermint Gambit