Gambit Fromm

Gambit Fromm is very excellent against the f4 opening.

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Originally posted by Dropkick Aaron
Gambit Fromm is very excellent against the f4 opening.

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Why?

How do you get 640 recs?

Originally posted by Forest9
Why?

Originally posted by Dropkick Aaron
Gambit Fromm is very excellent against the f4 opening.

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From's Gambit is one of the soundest of all, but it has two major disadvantages:

1) Anyone who plays 1.f4 is going to know that 1...e5 is a likely response. This means that you are unlikely to have the benefit of "shock value".

2) White can play 2.e4, transposing to the King's Gambit, so Black has to be happy playing against that.

White has no reason to fear the Fromm Gambit. Black like wise has no reason to fear the Bird's Opening. It seems to me that the Fromm Gambit gives chances for both sides. A player might have to be able to play a sharp open game.

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Originally posted by Helder Octavio
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http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bird

Henry Edward Bird (1830 – 1908) was an English chess player. He was born in Portsea in Hampshire.

Bird was invited to the first international tournament in London at the age of 21. He also participated in tournaments held in Vienna and New Jersey. He lost a match to Paul Morphy at the age of 28 (1858), yet he played chess for another 50 years.

In 1874 Bird proposed a new chess variant, which played on an 8x10 board and contained two new pieces, guard (rook+knight) and equerry (bishop+knight). This Bird's chess inspired Capablanca to create another chess variant, Capablanca chess, which differs from Bird's chess only by starting position.

Bird was also an outstanding author and accountant. He wrote a book on chess entitled Chess History and Reminiscences. He also wrote a book entitled An Analysis of Railways in the United Kingdom.

It was Bird who popularized the chess opening now called "Bird's Opening" (1. f4), as well as Bird's Defense (3...Nd4) to the Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5). Bird's opening is considered sound, though not the best try for an opening advantage. Bird's Defense is regarded as slightly inferior, but "trappy".

http://www.mjae.com/from.html

Le Gambit From -1.f4 e5 !?
Initiation au Gambit From, Par Gérard Demuydt
Le Gambit From est une invention du maître Danois Séverin From qui l'introduit en 1862 (Séverin From fut aussi le père du Gambit Danois : 1.e4 - e5 2.d4 - exd4 3.c3 - dxc3 4.Fc4). Il fut le premier joueur danois à prendre part à un tournoi international, à Paris, en 1867. Séverin From fut aussi le premier à remarquer la faiblesse de la diagonale "e1-h4" et à tenter d'obtenir une avance de développement pour en profiter.

Les débutants découvrirons que c'est à cause de l'affaiblissement de cette diagonale que l'on obtient le mat le plus rapide du jeu d'échecs. 1.f3?! - e5! 2.g4?? - Dh4 mat et pourrons méditer un instant sur la raison pour laquelle - alors que les Blancs débutent la partie et possèdent donc un temps d'avance - ceux-ci ont besoin d'un demi-coup de plus pour infliger le même mat. 1.e4 - f6?! 2.d4 - g5?? 3.Dh5 mat.

Bien que peu pratiquée, l'ouverture Bird 1.f4 naît naît d'une idée qui ne peut être mauvaise : jouer une sorte de Défense Hollandaise, avec un temps de plus.
Cependant, les Noirs ont non seulement la possibilité de refuser ce plan, mais ils peuvent aussi profiter de l'affaiblissement de l'aile roi, causé par le premier coup blanc, pour se saisir de l'initiative, même si cela doit leur coûter un pion.

Le Gambit From possède l'avantage indéniable d'être une ouverture flexible qui peut être incluse dans le répertoire de joueurs tactiques, comme dans celui de joueurs plus positionnels.

EDIT: my english is terrible, and my french is non-existent; please do anybody can translate?

Originally posted by cmsMaster
You have 400 points on him. How many people actually open with f4? It seems like an interesting opening (birds?) but I can't remember ever playing against it.