70% win rate as black in the Falkbeer Countergambit. Try it out before the devs nerf it.

Are you scared of the King's Gambit?

Are you haunted by traumatizing memories of your king running around naked while the queenside pieces never find time to get developed?

Do you like free rating points?

Try 2. d5! it's like playing a reverse Uno card on King's Gambit players. Sit back and be amazed at the incredible amount of players who immediately blunder their rook with 3. fxe5



Your opponent plays 3. exd5 instead, what now you ask?
Now we play 3. c6, confusing white and giving them another chance to blunder the same tactic



If you look at the database, an astonishing 25% of players rated below 2000 will blunder this move. Titled players, even GM's, have blundered this move. Gawain Jones did it two weeks ago in a bullet game and got mated in 7 moves. Even if they don't blunder it, the computer gives 0.00 for black after c6.

Show me another opening trap that has a 25% success rate, where black still equalizes if white doesn't fall for it.
You can't.

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What's equally astonishing is the number of players that fail to capitalise, and play dxe4 instead of Qh4+. Almost as many are playing dxe4!

Astonishing!

Yeah it's really strange, even in high levels games. White blunders it and black doesn't notice.
In the 2. nf6 line this tactic happens as well, and there it's not even the top reply for black! Black is five times more likely to play Nxe5, even you filter for only 2200+ players 2 out of 3 players still miss it.

imgur.com/a/38Lht6K

Just one of those blind spot moves I guess, you don't expect black to have a forced win on move 3.

Here GM Zhigalko blunders it and his 2600 opponent doesn't capitalize.

Another reason why you shouldn't use King's gambit.

just play 3. Nf3
King gambit is good

win rate master 43% for white

where can I redeem points

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 fxe5 4. Qh5+ g6
5. Qxe5+ Qe7 6. Qxh8 Qxe4+ 7. Kd1

reminds me of this

haha that's crazy. this is why you don't play king's gambit.

@LopsidedLops are serious ? I can play King gambit with white not bad opening