My favourites because they are very pofitable against humans are:
Halloween gambit ( I win 76% with white )L
Latvian gambit ( I win 80% with black )
Reti gambit ( I win 76% with white )
Wild openings (AND their lines)
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zuhulu wrote:
My favourites because they are very pofitable against humans are:
Halloween gambit ( I win 76% with white )L
Latvian gambit ( I win 80% with black )
Reti gambit ( I win 76% with white )
Cool stats!!!!!!
Classical Najdorf (Bg5) and Fischer Sozin Attack (Bc4). They contain such extreme aggression.
Here are some example lines:
This insane looking positional queen sac, 2 knights for the queen, actually works because it leaves the light squares terminally weak.
A lot of ways to sac the woman in the Open Sicilian lol. There are loads of other crazy types of lines as well though.
Mar 18, 2023
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I was just about to say Fischer-Sozin attack, but Samuel beat me to it by couple of hours.
Smith Morra Gambit can get wild with a nicely timed Nd5.
Mar 19, 2023
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The Halloween Gambit is surprisingly sound if you are willing to learn the theory. It is a fun little opening.
The Four Knights Scotch is one of my, if not my favorite opening. I hope to learn it in the near future. The variety of options that white has (Halloween Gambit, g3 lines, Scotch) makes this opening unique. Few e5 players study it, so that's a neat bonus.
chsnkl wrote:
The Halloween Gambit is surprisingly sound if you are willing to learn the theory. It is a fun little opening.
But totally unsound if opponent knows as much theory as you do. If you revise many, many engine lines in the variation then you can find something which holds for white but the endgame will always lose. It's not naturally playable.
This is the same with other unsound openings. For example, we all know the Stafford Gambit is totally losing for black. The reason why Eric Rosen does well with it is because he's analysed the theory to death to find anything which works for black. He can punish practically every single mistake and inaccuracy. It's not a sound opening but he toiled to make it work.
If opponent knows the same things you do or matches you in skill then it will not work and you will lose.
Mar 19, 2023
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SamuelAjedrez95 wrote:
chsnkl wrote:
The Halloween Gambit is surprisingly sound if you are willing to learn the theory. It is a fun little opening.
But totally unsound if opponent knows as much theory theory as you do. If you revise many, many engine lines in the variation then you can find something which holds for white but the endgame will always lose. It's not naturally playable.
This is the same with other unsound openings. For example, we all know the Stafford Gambit is totally losing for black. The reason why Eric Rosen does well with it is because he's analysed the theory to death to find anything which works for black. He can punish practically every single mistake and inaccuracy. It's not a sound opening but he toiled to make it work.
If opponent knows the same things you do or matches you in skill then it will not work and you will lose.
I would have to agree. It may work against inexperienced players in fast time controls, but other than that, it could pose some difficulties :/
What do you think are the wildest chess openings?
Ill go first:
Danish gambit
Black-mar Diemer gambit
Kings gambit
Portuguese gambit