Published 2/20/2024
Everyone loves a good gambit, which is where you basically go on this wild adventure to find the holy-grail of chess moves to pull off the proverbial stomp-out on your opponent, win a queen, and save your kingdom from total destruction, or something like that. Anyway, all humor aside, here are some of the trappiest, trickiest, and coolest gambits ever played in chess. ^.^
Tier 1 Gambits
(Highest Ranked by Grand Masters)
Staunton Gambit (vs Dutch Defense)
Tier 2 Gambits
(Very Deadly & High Quality Gambits)
Scotch Gambit (My Personal Favorite)
From Gambit (Defeats the Bird Opening)
Marshall Attack (Ruy Lopez / Spanish Opening - Gambit)
Tal Variation (Mikhail Tal's Caro Kann Defense Gambit)
Mengarini Gambit (Vs Black's Caro Kann)
Rousseau Gambit (Black vs White's e4)
Tier 3 Gambits
(Considered Quality Gambits)
Stafford Gambit (Very good when played well)
Ortho-Schnapp Gambit (Vs French Defense)
Milner Barry Gambit (Vs French Defense)
Albin Counter Gambit (Vs Queen's Gambit)
Ponziani Steinitz Gambit (Also called the Dark Knight Gambit)
O'Sullivan Gambit - (Very Tricky!)
Queen's Gambit - (Many Variations!)
Duras Gambit (Vs Ruy Lopez)
Portsmouth Gambit (Vs Sicilian Defense)
Tier 4 Gambits
(These are pretty easy to defeat)
Tennison Gambit (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Gambit)
Blackburne-Kloosterboer Gambit
Falkbeer Counter Gambit (Vs King's Gambit)
Lowest Tier Gambits
(Considered Trash by some GMs, but they do work!)
Wing Gambit (Vs French & Sicilian)
King's Gambit (Has Multiple Tricks!)
Winningest Gambits
(By Total times won, may be easy to defeat!)
Friend Liver Attack (Very Common & Dangerous, but easy to defeat)
Elephant Gambit - Wasp Variation
King's Gambit Accepted - Double Muzio (Winningest Gambit)
Landau Gambit (Vs Black's Caro Kann)
Every Chess Gambit for White & Black Explained
(Feel free to skip to the top 100, lol!)
That's a pretty thorough introduction to most of the gambits that are out there, though there are indeed hundreds more, but most of them aren't worth playing to be honest, and so I only listed those that are common, good, at least decent, or those even played by Grand Masters, though I've included 2 videos to help you learn more gambits and how to use them.
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