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Englund Gambit

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Been playing it for a year and have had great luck with it.

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@dood111 said
Been playing it for a year and have had great luck with it.
Cute idea for blitz games or scoring a point against C and D players. Stronger players however will normally give up the recently won pawn in exchange for a development advantage, which is easy to do, since after ...Qxd5 whites knights can run the black queen around the board, getting off their home squares with initiative.

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If your opponent has spent half an hour at some stage learning how to refute it then the Englund is just rubbish for Black. Having said that the last time I saw someone play in an OTB game his opponent (close to 2000 rating) walked straight into the only trap:
1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Qe7 4. Bf4 Qb4+ 5. Bd2 Qxb2 6. Bc3 Bb4 7. Qd2 Bxc3 8. Qxc3 Qc1#
It was supposed to be a three hour game (in the annual Oxford "Town vs Gown" match) but it was all over in ten minutes flat.

I suggest that you learn the Budapest Gambit instead, preferably the Fajarowicz variation. If Black knows it well then it's a half-decent opening. Then after a few years you might feel brave enough to play the Kings Indian - it can get very tactical and it's more about understanding the ideas then memorising a few cheap tricks. I enjoy my Kings Indian games more than any others, win or lose.

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@mynameisklint
I play it on lichess in one minute games. At least half of them fall for it.

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I have 62 times this position with White to play has appeared on RHP


And it has registered 62 Black wins.

Blanca has won using it the most from 2012 to 2019 (24 times)
funnily enough more than a few times v the same opponent.

Game 11605231 Game 11617222 and Game 13117022

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Are there are any other positions on RHP which have appeared more than, say, fifty times in which one or other side has a 100% winning record?

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Once I looked at a few games I have had no issues with people playing the Englund against me. The people I played seemed stuck when I did not do something stupid.

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Hi mynameisklint

Blog Post 409 see the Marko Krale - de nar RHP 2018 game.
128 Red Hot Pawn players as Black have resigned on move six.

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Ah! But in at least two other games Black has gone on to win, so the position after 6. Qf3 is not a 100% winning position for White.

Here's a well known trap in the Caro Kann:



If you have a look at this line on the 365 chess opening explorer (I'm not allowed to post links because I've never played a game on this site) you'll see that in their database the position after these moves has occurred 17 times. Of those, White played 7.c3 once and went on to win; 7.Nxf6+ once, and Black eventually won; and a slightly better move the remaining 15 times.

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A winning move versus a bad player could be a losing move against a good player.

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Very hard to find a 50+ position that has 100% wins.
Even that old chestnut in the Petrov where Black loses their Queen.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4 4.Qe2 Nf6 5.Nc6+


Has been seen 208 on RHP times and Black has managed to win a few.

This position a few moves on after 5...Be7 6.Nxd8 Kxd8 7.d4


Has been seen 30 times with 100% White wins. But the RHP database is
not up to date. There maybe more and a Black win could have sneak in.

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I used to play it and would get quick wins half of the time and then I got over the 1600 level and now it is junk.
It is just something fun to play in blitz games.

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@mynameisklint

And of course it's mate next move.

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I just played a 1d4 e5 game. I was white lol