@sheckley666 said in #6:
> Why does it have a name, if it has never been played OTB?
There are named King's Gambit lines that have never been played OTB or in lichess's 500 million game database. Most likely these were made by someone in the 19th century who drank too much whisky while analyzing and fell asleep chessboard, then woke to their cat nudging a piece over. Those were the glory days of opening theory, when any move that doesn't blunder a queen (and some moves that do!) gets named after you.
All this is a very roundabout way of saying: named openings aren't necessarily good. Let this guy have his thing. With some preparation, it could work as a surprise weapon at low-level chess. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.