Beat 1.g3 with the 2...Bh3 gambit!!!

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fryedk

A trending move, according to an online database after 1.g3 d5 2.Bg2, is 2...Bh3.

As crazy as it first looks, most white players choose not to take black's gambit and give black a lead in development, but rather offer a counter-gambit by playing 3.Nf3, allowing black to take on g2. 

After black takes the bishop on g2, I recommend that white play the somewhat uncommon 3.Ng5!?, which has a high win rate for white after black's most common response, 3...Bf3. If 3...Bxh1, 4.f3 has roughly equal winning chances in practice, though objectively black is likely better. 

Below is an illustrative game between two grandmasters.

NumberOfMovesDeep

I call your bluff, 3. Bxh3!! And the crowd goes wild!!!

fryedk

Yeah but that's not commonly played

earikbeann

So in the hard-core version of the accepted gambit, does black then follow up with 3..e5 and 4...Ba3?? Because you know, if giving away one bishop for free is good, giving away two is brilliant!

Any white player that has a rating over 800 or so, and who is not a computer that is forced to play a specific set opening, will just take the bishop with a winning position. 

Uhohspaghettio1

Seems pretty obvious tbh - sacrificing the bishop for quick development and to take white's bishop off of the long diagonal or bring his knight to the rim.  

Tired of seeing people treating ordinary, common-sense moves like this as groundbreaking breakthroughs. 

  

Sachac1k

Oh please promote this gambit little more and then let eryone play it against me. I play nothing else for my YouTube series. It will be so difficult to reach 2200 evil

gik-tally

3.Bxh3 is the MAIN LINE (1600-2000), and scores 67:29 at 43,041 games with a +9.0 eval

WHY would anyone play THAT on purpose? a losing main line?

Sachac1k
1983B-Boy wrote:

3.Bxh3 is the MAIN LINE (1600-2000), and scores 67:29 at 43,041 games with a +9.0 eval

WHY would anyone play THAT on purpose? a losing main line?

They play it in videogame called bullet