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5 Rare Gambits You Didn't Know Existed

Mar 16, 2024
Today we're going to take a look at five openings that feature incredibly weird tactics that you've probably never heard of before or at least I can personally say that I had never heard of any of these before I sat down. Today I found five tactics I had never heard of. I compiled them all into one big compilation and we'll go through them together and there's a lot of cool stuff now. I will warn you in advance that some of them are very bad and it is very doubtful, but some of these could be playable, which is perhaps the biggest surprise of all and in fact, it would be great before we start if you let me

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5 rare gambits you didn t know existed
I really appreciate everyone who subscribes, but you get the point. The idea is five games, five dubious

gambits

and we're going to jump right in with the number five. This is something you can play against D4 and C4 and the way to get to this Gambit is by playing The Budapest Gambits. Now this one obviously. on its own is not uncommon, it is an incredibly well-known idea: you sacrifice your E5 pawn to play Knight to G4 and the usual idea is that you are going to recover the E5 pawn with your knight, however, the reason why some of these

gambits

on this list ended up here not because they are actually an unusual Gambit in themselves, but some of these come from popular openings but are a fairly

rare

secondary variation within them, for example, what I mean is that here only you can get to this.
5 rare gambits you didn t know existed

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Gambit if White does not play the main moves which are Bishop to F4, something like Knight to F3, one of these moves that defends this epon, but you can only reach this Gambit if White decides to play E4, which is the alakine variation from Budapest. Gambit and this is something you might know a little less about even if you're a Budapest player because it's a much

rare

r variation and the main idea here is that if Black retreats, watch your knight get attacked by this queen and if Black decides to take back E5, which would be the typical response, Black's non-gambit response, White could make a move like Pawn to F4, this is the kind of thing White is playing, it is a very provocative style in the that White is grabbing tons of space, kicking the Knight back immediately as Black, you can try to hope that this is the case, that White has overextended himself to some extent, but objectively this should work out fine for White or at least say , uh, the computers will hit. a pretty substantial advantage in a position like this, so instead of going into all this and allowing all those complications, you have another option is to play Pawn to D6, which is known as ballog gambits, so it's really fun where your price sacrifice After the bishop takes D6, you have actually set a very nasty trap with the black pieces because if White is not careful here, Black will simply win like he did in this game and it seems very likely that an opponent will be a horse happens to him. to F3 this is simply the most natural move you want to develop your Knights, you enter the Knight into the game and everything seems to be going well, but no target has fallen into a massive trap now if you've seen any of my other videos that maybe know when you get this exact setup, it may seem like there is some kind of tactics involved when facing F2.
5 rare gambits you didn t know existed
I think this is one of the first things you can look for when looking for a tactic, but this Knight takes The F2 tactic just doesn't work and the way it could work, the way you could be tricked into thinking you can do this is aha. , maybe I can get the king to this square and then I can give this check with the bishop. You can play Bishop to G3 to get this queen back, but you'd be surprised if White doesn't get your Bishop back, but instead takes Cloud's king to E2 and suddenly, uh oh, you're in a lot of trouble because White just protected the bishop. of the queen who is still hanging and you have sacrificed a piece.
5 rare gambits you didn t know existed
This just doesn't work, so what is it? What is this deadly tactic that Black has available and I will give you? This is your last chance, maybe now to pause the video. but here in this game, uh, Black actually made an amazing move from Bishop to B4 by moving the bishop a second time and what Black is trying to do is have White block D2 and temporarily make it impossible for this queen exchange to happen. This can happen, which may not be entirely obvious why you need to do that and we're going to show you the game where Bishop went to D2 and I'll show you exactly how Black moves on the next move from this position, but it's also just It's worth noting that there are all kinds of basic tactics, like if Knight to C3, uh, we can swap these guys out and deliver this kind of branch.
You know, this is one of the other main ideas available to Black, but why on the other hand? Well, I understand that I can't play Knight on C3, why does it matter if I have to block with a bishop or a knight on the D2 square? Well, now Black will move the bishop for the third time and in this position, uh, White actually. He gave up the game because there is no satisfactory way to defend this F2 pawn and suddenly White is absolutely destroyed because if, for example, you play Bishop until E3, which seems like the logical way, at least try to defend and whatever if We are losing a pawn, whatever it is, it actually gets very bad for you because we can exchange these Queens, we can exchange these Bishops and at the end of the day there is still this Fork left, so it is a very deadly trap that you can play.
I just want to highlight it. once again, uh ballog Gambit against Budapest, you can move your bishop three times and win the game, immediately moving to number two. This is a game between Michael Bassman, who has the black pieces here, and this is a very iffy opening. you can play if you can reach this position, which will happen all the time, if your opponent plays E4 and you play with the French defense, you will reach this position quite often and here there is already a very crazy Gambit and it is this move Pawn to B5 this is the Bowerly Gambit it is a very difficult word to pronounce it has four vowels stacked in the middle but it has the idea that after the bishop takes and I want to point out that this is one of those that are on the very doubtful side, such You may not want to try it at home, but it's an interesting idea, to say the least.
The point is that you will now play Bishop on B7 lining up your Bishop on this diagonal. and continuing with Pawn to F5 uh, which doesn't really work but in practice it could be very dangerous now in this game we saw that the bishop returned to D3 and black played Pawn to F5 and this is the main idea you have. We're trying to provoke them to take this pawn so we can take this pawn and it's worth noting that one of the most critical moves for White is actually taking this pawn and sacrificing the rook on H1 now in this game that we looked at.
Knight to D2, so we'll see what happens if people decide to defend this epon, which can happen quite often, but it's actually worth noting that a critical line must be taken and this leads to all kinds of crazy and wild things In fact, it is very difficult for White to play like a computer. White Blaze as a computer wins, but it could be difficult depending on your rating level now as the bishop retakes G2 just to point out how fun this could be. you could get something like this where the queen is giving up this check, you have to make a move like G6, you have to get out of check, okay, white will take this and suddenly white is making a very big threat and the threat is over.
G7, check and win the rook while making another queen, so something like Knight to F6 just won't work even if you win this queen, he will get a new queen and at the same time take the rook, but that's not the end of the story because black has an interesting move. How do you prevent White from playing Bishop to G7? Sorry, Pawn to G7. Okay, I messed it up. You play Bishop to G7 and in this case White can still take this H Pawn and deliver a check this way and you will play King to f8. and now this is the interesting part about this position because if you ask a computer, it will give you a random move, it will be like developing a piece, you know, doing some kind of random developing move and you're like plus three, which It's really cool since White is obviously a super winner, but I still think a lot of people would choose this Knight, how can you resist taking the Knight and making a queen to gain some more material, but if you get to a position like This, the advantage is not?
Just as clearly, although White should probably do very well here because now all of a sudden the material is the same, but you're obviously playing with a little fire if you decide to play this with Black because, well, I mean, all the humans will take that Knight, if you have never seen this before it is very hard to resist taking the horses, but if they just develop you are in very bad shape, this opening should be avoided, but in this game we saw an example of how it goes incredibly well because the opponent never took F5 and instead decided to continue fortifying this square now that it is attacked again, white defends it again and now how was black going to continue?
We've put as much pressure on pond e as possible and you really want to keep putting pressure on the center, so what is Black going to do? He played the pawn to C5 and says: "Okay, you protected this guy, no problem, I'm going to attack the other one and he had a very interesting point behind this, it's because after Knight to F3, White, every move , White is just defending what Black just attacked. Here Black played C4, this is a fun move and he says that now it is necessary to take one of these pieces and you will have to undefend E4.
Pawn, so after that the bishop takes C4, we saw shots of F and now I must warn you that this game ends quite anti-climatically and I just wanted to point it out because after the Knight to G5 we saw the Queen to A5 and obviously Black made a very cunning long range threat in this position, but the opponent

didn

't see it at this time. Black or sorry, White is still doing very well, but after C3, uh oh, the Knight fell from a super long Queen maneuver and it's because Since White is a Nameless again, I'd say maybe avoid this Gambit, but it has an interesting idea behind it.
Now moving on from that, we'll get a bit of redemption by showing an opening that is actually potentially very playable and this one was played. not between two no-name players, but rather two players with a very high rating, so the player with white has a rating of 24 or 65 and the other opponent has 25 20. So these are two very good players who They play a very respectable opening this is the Rosalimo variation of the Sicilian, you'll get this all the time but the reason you may not know this particular Gambit is because it only occurs on this peculiar line with the Knight going to A5 and this is not the most common way, but it is a very interesting approach by Black who is simply moving the knights.
White's intention very often is to take that knight, so if I move it out of the way they won't be able to capture me and maybe I'll expand on the queen side. You will play A6 and B5 and you will have to move your bishop once again, so a very fascinating idea that allows White to play a very interesting betting game is the San Francisco gambits, you can play the pawn on B4 and we are combining the rosalimo with some kind of Wing Gambit which leads to some interesting ideas and in this game we

didn

't see Black take the gambits which will happen quite a bit when you look at high level games and this was the highest model game I could find in this particular opening, which is something I'm trying to do.
I am trying to find the best qualified players to play these particular openings. In this game we saw that Black didn't take immediately and I just want to point out that if he decides to take, you can play it as if it were a Wing Gambit. You can play D4 at some point. A3, Black is probably playing, uh, E6 and A6 in some kind of move order, you'll get something like. here you can just continue and you can just Castillor or you can play A3 something like this and uh this is an interesting Gambit because you're going to be down, like if Black ever took this, you'd be down. but at the same time the Knight doesn't necessarily make sense on A5 and you already have the center with white, but you know it's probably like a close round because of everything that's going on, so it's something you might be able to get and this one might very good to be a playable Gambit, however in this game we saw Asics and unlike the rest of these games which are kind of miniatures, this is just a well played game for the most part now, another interesting option from Blancos, you might expect this bishop to just move somewhere, well it went somewhere, but he went to D7 and took this guy and temporarily Whitethey raise a pawn, he takes the pawn on D7 and recovers it right here.
This pawn will eventually be recaptured. for the queen, but we get to a kind of interesting position in the middlegame where, at some point, it becomes a question of where Black actually goes to the Castle. Are you going to cast on the queen side or maybe I can do stuff on the B file? Are you going to Castle on the king's side where maybe it's not very easy to get many defenders there? Let's see where he decides to end up turning black. He decides to go to the queen side and we get some kind of interesting position like this this knight is attacked twice as much as attacked by the bishop and the queen, now it is defended by the knight until G5, which allows this queen to come in and we see many interesting intermezzos in this game.
The knight returns to defend the pawn F7, up, comes. The Rook The Rook might be thinking about taking a full swing and then maybe one day settling on the B3 box. The Horse is attacked. The Rook kicks the queen and then at some point everything is being kicked out. Black is preparing. all sorts of nasty stuff against G2, so White kicks the queen, takes out the queen and after this recapture, instead of getting it back right away, another nice little intermediate move performs this check, gets the bishop back and so far we only have a relatively good game maybe a little better for white all this time, but at some point we get to this position and white decides to grab C5 and this is the critical moment of the game because the queen ends up in the alignment of the rook, so Black decides to take advantage of this time to play.
The bishop takes G2 and this is where a lot of calculations probably had to come into play and the question is: do we need to move our queen somewhere and allow this bishop to play? They retreat and Black has just taken a very strong pawn in front of our king. Well, actually White comes up with this pawn move to E6 and the idea is that we have created a square so that this queen can get out of the way with check. and then potentially in order to get this bishop back, black decides to take the queen, but now white has to take this queen and suddenly black is in a lot of trouble because this bishop needs to go somewhere, but there's actually no a good square and In the game you decide to go to H3, which allows the pawn to go to D4 and suddenly, uh oh, two things are under attack, but there's really nothing better, for example, if you go here , it could be even worse for Black because boom, the bishop to D4 and suddenly this Rook is completely trapped, so something like this doesn't quite work and instead what we saw was the bishop going to H3 and this allowed white to win a piece.
Now I don't want to say that this game was won solely because of the opening, but the opening itself appears to be playable. The San Francisco gambits are great. If you ever get this really rare rosalimo variation with Knight at A5, consider B4. It's a cool and interesting Gambit. Now we move on to what is probably the most dubious gambit on this list. We have number two, the game between a grandmaster who was absolutely crushed by one of the worst gambits of all time. This is Julian Hodgson, player ranked Grandmaster 2560. playing an assimil against someone I can't find any information about and this was an English opening where after Knight to C3 Knight F6 Knight F3 we get a sort of three night variation, we see Pawn to E4 Knight to G5 and in this position there are actually quite a few There are many different gambits that you can play like B5 directly, it is a very interesting Gambit.
C6 is a very interesting Gambit that has been played a little more frequently lately. The idea is that you can do some trading and you can play D5. and you can force this Knight to choose a direction and this has led to some very interesting games, some of which have been covered on this channel, but instead we saw this incredibly weird and incredibly dumb and horrible Knight for G4, this It's really bad. ask your computer, it's already like plus three, literally one of the worst moves you could ever play, aka the urban Heimer Gambit, this is one I've never heard of and probably for good reason there's just no reason to play this, but he is still a great teacher. got completely crushed in just a couple of moves from this position, so white retreats right here and black needs to follow up with something direct, it doesn't really make much sense, but any position where you have a knight targeting this F2 pawn could always end up being more dangerous than it first appears and in fact Black plays the Pawn on F5, kicks this Knight and now follows it up with the Queen on H4 keeping an eye on this Pawn F2, the queen and the Knight are converging on that pawn and, uh, White.
You just have to be a little careful to avoid mistakes and you should be able to win this game pretty easily, but we still see that the first Knight to D5, White goes here trying to fork Black, so Black decides to use the king, why not the king to d8? but now we see this horrible move from Pawn to H3 and this is White's losing move. What white needs to do is just move this epon huh. E3 or even E4 is a computer suggestion, but E3 is safe and sensible enough. D4 is fine too. literally any move other than H3 and white is fine but now you are in a lot of trouble and the winning move for black is the Knight takes F2 and after the king retreats we can notice that the king is now trapped in this horrible pinned and all you need to do is attack the pin piece once again with the bishop on D6 and uh oh, White is suddenly eliminated and even here White can probably play a little better, but unfortunately he plays the pawn on E3 , which looks like maybe you've given the king a little bit of room to run away after this capture, but you'll suddenly realize that after the bishop faces G3, it doesn't matter where this king goes, If you decide to enter this diagonal, you will be hit with this move. and suddenly you're going to lose the queen, so after the king runs away to wherever he decides to go, there goes the queen, so this was an absolutely huge mistake that was made even worse by running into the corner and now in It's actually very simple.
The top two, Bishop to F2 and Queen to G3, so I don't know what to make of this one, are probably the worst gambits on the list, at least in terms of dried fish ranking, but Knight to G4 play at your own risk, It's definitely one you should avoid. but maybe you can catch a grandmaster who knows that we are now moving to number one. This is another Gambit that probably has the coolest name. These are the Pickler Gambits named after Gary Pickler himself. I found one of the original games of his and this is something that happens in uh, the queen, sorry, the Kings Gambit and it starts with the Falk beer counter gambits.
The good thing about this is that okay, there's a Gambit here, the Guilty Beer Counter Gambit and after this you need some people here, okay, most of the people here are playing E4. There is also a rare take move, but this move is not necessarily completely unknown. It's like the Nimsovich Gambit within the popular beer counter gambits. Pawn to C6, even this is still a gambit, but now, after this recapture, you can play the Pickler gambits, which instead. to recapture, which almost always happens, everyone recovers C6, you can play bishop to C5. I said sacrifice another pawn and the good thing about this is that the computer evaluation is something like plus 0.8 like a little bit better for White, but if this is just a little bit. a little better, you have already captured two pawns, uh, this could be a very dangerous thing because white moved this F pawn, this gives us some ideas in the future to potentially give this check, especially if white can never accept this game of words E5 because there is always this check and who knows maybe at some point we can get in maybe at some point we can get this pawn back it looks like it could be a lot of fun now I have to warn you in advance I'm not sure this was necessarily the game of highest quality.
I'm not sure of Mr. Pickler's qualifications, but his opening idea is really fantastic. Knight to F3 is the move that makes a lot of sense, because it puts more pressure on this pawn and he needs to prevent the queen by going to H4 uh and instead of maybe going back to C6 his idea was to push this pawn to E4 and uh, basically you're playing a Falk Bear Counter Gambit, but you brought out this bishop which is actually very useful, so here we are. I saw the Knight take the Bishop to C to B5 and press the C6 square and this is where things start to get very interesting because in this game we saw the Queen to B6, maybe not the worst move in the world attacking this bishop and trying to put a little pressure on the F2 square, maybe the F2 bishop is coming, but it's worth noting here that there is an interesting computer idea of ​​simply playing Knight to F6 and if White gets greedy and decides to try to take this Knight, what you would expect maybe the Knight is the way to do it, you get to this very interesting position where you can recover this Knight and if this recovers the Bishop to D7 and you will have set a beautiful trap because if White gets upset and decides to go For this. rook and I will tell you in the leading database, this position has happened eight times and all eight players have taken this rook, but now all of a sudden black is completely winning and hopefully he can spot the winning move.
Bishop to G4, queen is trapped, it's actually a brilliant idea, so this Pickler Gambit is really cool. It could lead to a trap like this, but that's not what happened in our game. In our game we got the Pickler Gambit, but instead of Knight to F6, which could be an interesting option. capture move we saw the Queen to B6 after which we ruined the game, but back to that once again, we got to this position where Black can recover, so now we are only one pawn down and we have this. Very dangerous alignment of the queen and the bishop.
The queen goes out to the E2 defenses. The square potentially attacks this pawn and here we see the knight at F6. The knight enters the bishop at A3 A6. Sorry, this all makes a lot of sense, at some point things stopped making sense. um, this move makes some sense, but it's actually like losing Black and Castle here and it's like a very strong move, but instead it opens this file. Oh, things look very dangerous, but then instead of retreating with a knight, White retreats with a pawn. and this will help black to castle and suddenly black takes control again and then this game went from rook to e8 here attacking the queen but this is not necessarily the best move because of this exact move well detected by Mr.
Pickler Queen for D4 very strong move attacking this guy and suddenly this guy is pinned, so this pawn is hanging, which is this guy's defender. Things are slowly starting to fall apart. Let's also mention that maybe the D3 square is a little sensitive so it decides to castle which allows Black to sneak in the queen and White is in a lot of trouble here so that's how Gary Pickler himself was able to win a chess game Very well done by Gary and I hope you enjoyed it. and maybe you'd play Pickler's tactics. I think of all of them, this might be the one he would choose and maybe he would play the most.
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