Can someone direct me to a good site about a gambit to meet 1.d4,please?
Been browsing the net for over a hour but all I found are a few sites on the benko gambit and a few very,very obscure gambits.Not that the benko is bad but I would like to check out more options and they have to be at least remotely sound 🙂
I believe 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 is a just about playable gambit for black. Maybe something with or like 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5 is too. There's also the Blumenfeld, which relies on your opponent wishing to avoid the Nimzo Indian, but being happy to face a Benoni: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 b5. The Budapest Gambit 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 is also possible, although there black usually regains the pawn on e5, and you seem to wish to play material down! The wild 3. ... Ne4!? in that line might be worth looking at, however. I believe there are some bonkers lines after that where black plays things like ...d6, and after exd6, goes Qf6, g5, trying to organise something against f2 and maybe b2. But maybe I misremember, it's been a while.
I don't know of any good websites about these, however. I think the Benko is probably the only respectable gambit response to 1. d4, unless you count the Botvinnik variation in the Slav as a gambit.
One playable gambit for Black against 1.d4 is the Budapest -
1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e5
After 3. dxe5 Black has 3..... Ng4 or 3.... Ne4, both leading to very different games. The Ne4 lines can be very sharp.
The Englund gambit is simply rubbish if White doesn't fall for the two cheapos.
Yes it must be a gambit.I am blessed with an unhealthy disrespect for material,especially pawns.They're just cannonfodder 😛
Well,further searches on the inet reveal that apparently only the Benko and Budapest are considered sound gambits vs 1.d4.As confirmed here by you guys/girls.Gonna play a few Englund's too though,just for kicks 😉
I played the Budapest many times so I guess I'll give the benko a go now.Allthough I never did play that Fajarowicz (sp?) variant of the Budapest,will have to try that too.
Thanks for the input so far,most appreciated 🙂
Originally posted by GorgarThe Benko is probably the best countergambit for black against 1.d4 in that it is positionally grounded and has been played at the top level for a long time without there being a clear-cut refutation found against it (a bit like the Marshall against the Lopez). Of the other gambits mentioned, the Albin (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5) and the Budapest may be just about playable. Also worth mentioning is the von Hennig-Schara Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd4 cxd4!?), which gives black some play for the pawn. However, the main problem for potential gambiteers is that so many boring d4 b*****ds prevent all this with 2.Nf3. How dare they!
Can someone direct me to a good site about a gambit to meet 1.d4,please?
Been browsing the net for over a hour but all I found are a few sites on the benko gambit and a few very,very obscure gambits.Not that the benko is bad but I would like to check out more options and they have to be at least remotely sound 🙂
Originally posted by EnigmaticCamNo,but all gambits intrest me 🙂
I played PopeBambi a couple times, and both times he met my 1. d4 with an immediate e5. Not sure what kind of gambit it is, but I played 2. e4 and transposed to the dutch gambit. lol, I guess you're not looking for a gambit for white so I'm probably not helping 🙂
What is this "dutch gambit"?Never heard of it 😕