Give me obscure openings and gambits

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Karlabos

But like... REALLY obscure

I wanna learn stuff I never heard of.

Chess_Player_lol

the reason they are obscure is because they are bad. 

a sideline that is decent is QG janowski

 

Karlabos
Chess_Player_lol wrote:

the reason they are obscure is because they are bad. 

I don't care if they're bad or not. The more the merrier.

 
Chess_Player_lol

 

Professor_Gobbles
Karlabos wrote:

But like... REALLY obscure

 

I wanna learn stuff I never heard of.

Ever heard of the Van Geet Opening: Düsseldorf Gambit?

 

 

 
Henson_Chess

The Prisoner's Gambit from a recent Gotham vid, looks fun for Blitz. 

 

 

Magnus played it in 2014 for a Blitz game in Zurich vs Anand

 

The story of the "Prisoner" the opening is named after is WILD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bloodgood

Morfizera

 

 

newbie4711

Bellon Gambit

 





AnxiousPetrosianFan

1.g4

adityasaxena4

 

This is one that I play against the Italian

technical_knockout

sturm gambit

Karlabos
12Knaves wrote:

The Prisoner's Gambit from a recent Gotham vid, looks fun for Blitz. 

 

 

Interesting. Kinda looks like a budapest gambit for white

 

Professor_Gobbles wrote:

Ever heard of the Van Geet Opening: Düsseldorf Gambit?

That sounds like something that would never happen, lol

Karlabos
adityasaxena4 wrote:

 

This is one that I play against the Italian

wat?

 

technical_knockout wrote:

sturm gambit

Wait, what!?

Karlabos
newbie4711 wrote:

Bellon Gambit

Oh, isn't this Anna Cramling's dad's gambit?

mrfreezyiceboy

the coca-cola gambit

 

and alessi gambit

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Mikhail60Mikhail

I have a few weird ones. The anti Sicilian game is very unorthodox and your opponent usually makes mistakes since they can't find out what you are doing and I have always found smyslovs lines weird but they can be fun to play

Baum128

F4 d5 c4

zone_chess

Here's are the obscure ones:

The Drunken Cavalry: 1. e4 Na6 2. Nf3 Nh6

The Krazy Kat: 1. f3 e5 2. Nh3 d5 3. Nf2 

The Walrus: 1.Nf3 e5 2.Nxe5 Nc6 3.Nxc6 dxc6

The Unicorn: 1.e4 f6 2.d4 b6 3.c4 Bb7

Kahiko-Hula Gambit

Hekili-Loa Gambit: 1.e4 b6 2.d4 c5 3.dxc5 Nc6

Banzai-Leong Gambit: 1.e4 e6 2.b4

Also, who has heard of the Anti-Anti-Gruenfeld?
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.e4



And last but not least, the Horny Defense:

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qxg4 Nf6 8. Qxf4 Bd6

 

newbie4711

 

the_random_guy8117

The Zaire Defense. One of the most obscure "defenses" in my opinion. Just a waste of 4 moves for black.