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What's the first gambit you've learned ?

@MrStrandMan said in #17:
> You played d5 as Black 25 hours ago. And two games in a row even.

Not according to Lichess.

Perhaps you are confusing me with my opponent (I had a few opponents playing the Scandinavian defense after my 1 e4), or you were looking at games where I played 2 .. d5 in a French defense. Or perhaps you confused 1 .. f5 with 1 .. d5. Or you looked at someone else.

I did play 1 ... d5 in a Chess 960 game the past 48 hours though.
My first chess book dedicated to a single opening was the Kings Gambit. I bought opening books on the Smith Morra, Evans Gambit, Blackmar-Deimer Gambit, Queens Gambit, Goring Gambit, I enjoyed playing against the Ruy Lopez with Marshall Gambit (my favourite player Frank J Marshall I borrowed his best games collection from my old chess club and studied every game).
Playing Gambits is a great way to gain a chess eduction and a ton of fun. You will create games which you will love .. I believe that’s one of the great rewards of chess.
Blackburne Shilling Gambit. Nowadays at 1700 I only play Vienna Gambit, Meitner Mieses Gambit and Albin Countergambit.
The first gambit I heard about was the QG about 10 years before the infamous movie. Ddidn't learn it actually. Played a few games mostly lost.
My sequence of learning was
1. Blackburn shilling gambit
2. Englund
3. Stafford
4. Danish
5. Queens gambit
6. Kings gambit
7. Evans gambit
8. Tennison

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