Are you scared of the King's Gambit?
Are you haunted by traumatizing memories of your king running around naked while the queenside pieces never find time to get developed?
Do you like free rating points?
Try 2. d5! it's like playing a reverse Uno card on King's Gambit players. Sit back and be amazed at the incredible amount of players who immediately blunder their rook with 3. fxe5
Your opponent plays 3. exd5 instead, what now you ask?
Now we play 3. c6, confusing white and giving them another chance to blunder the same tactic
If you look at the database, an astonishing 25% of players rated below 2000 will blunder this move. Titled players, even GM's, have blundered this move. Gawain Jones did it two weeks ago in a bullet game and got mated in 7 moves. Even if they don't blunder it, the computer gives 0.00 for black after c6.
Show me another opening trap that has a 25% success rate, where black still equalizes if white doesn't fall for it.
You can't.
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DISCLAIMER: If you play against players who know theory you might not be eligible for free rating points.
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Are you haunted by traumatizing memories of your king running around naked while the queenside pieces never find time to get developed?
Do you like free rating points?
Try 2. d5! it's like playing a reverse Uno card on King's Gambit players. Sit back and be amazed at the incredible amount of players who immediately blunder their rook with 3. fxe5
Your opponent plays 3. exd5 instead, what now you ask?
Now we play 3. c6, confusing white and giving them another chance to blunder the same tactic
If you look at the database, an astonishing 25% of players rated below 2000 will blunder this move. Titled players, even GM's, have blundered this move. Gawain Jones did it two weeks ago in a bullet game and got mated in 7 moves. Even if they don't blunder it, the computer gives 0.00 for black after c6.
Show me another opening trap that has a 25% success rate, where black still equalizes if white doesn't fall for it.
You can't.
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DISCLAIMER: If you play against players who know theory you might not be eligible for free rating points.
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