The Goring Gambit

The Goring Gambit

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06 May 08
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A chess cartoon I re-hashed from a non chess carton.

This weeks problem (I do not know the composer)


White to play and checkmate in three moves.

A brief look at the Goring Gambit 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3


And the three most common Black 4th move here. 4...dxc3, 4....d5 and 4...Nf6.

A good OTB game looks at 3...dxc3 and a couple of RHP games then follow.

Some RHP Goring Gambit states based on games under 25 moves.

4...dxc3 White wins 515 draws 3 Black wins 173
4...d5 White wins 57 draws 4 Black wins 56
4...Nf6 White wins 315 draws 9 Black wins 260

The low number of draws is because I used games finishing on or under move 25.

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