Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated Damen Gambit Instead of immediately challenging White's

Instead of immediately challenging White's centre

The conscientious student

The training program \"Learn chess systematically\" is aimed at hobby players who want to catch up with club strength

Chapter 10

Lakdawala shows how Nezhmetdinov fought for the initiative

Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated Damen Gambit Instead of immediately challenging White'sWhich opening does better in practice: the wild, unsound and refuted Latvian Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5) or the solid Philidor Defence (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6)? As James Schuyler points out, referring to the definitive Megabase, the Latvian Gambit scores higher. How can such a discredited opening (and the same story is repeated with other unsound openings) do so well? The point is that playing like this throws the opponent off balance, makes them anxious and