Goring Gambit

Goring Gambit is very interesting and aggressive opening against 1.e4 e5, someone says that this opening is not good for high level players… but what it means? Wolrd Champion, titled players,club players? I had very good result with this opening in my chess tournaments, it’s a surprise and is very hard for black find a good way to have a good game. I hope that my videos can help you to master this opening in your games!

The position that you see below is the standard position about the Goring Gambit, so we will study it by this position!

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I made a video series about this fantastic opening in 10 lessons, you can see the playlist here.

About Goring Gambit Series :

Videos 1-4  Goring Gambit Accepted

When black accepts the pawn and he takes on c3, black will be a pawn up but white has a very strong compensation for it because he has a good advantage about the development in a open position

[fen]r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/2n5/8/4P3/2p2N2/PP3PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen]

To learn more click here

Videos 5-7 Goring Gambit Refused (d5 variation)

In this case black refuses the pawn to avoid all the complications about the accepted variation, the most important variation is the push d5 to play against the isolated pawn

[fen]r1bqkbnr/ppp2ppp/2n5/3p4/3pP3/2P2N2/PP3PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen]

To learn more click here

About good players, here my game against the International Master Burns-Mannion from Scotland.

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[Event “Lothians Congress”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2012.09.30”]
[Round “4”]
[White “Santagati, Alessandro”]
[Black “Burns Mannion, Stephen”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “C44”]
[WhiteElo “2223”]
[BlackElo “2342”]
[Plycount “81”]
[Sourcedate “2007.07.25”]

1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.c3 { Goring gambit, the white sacrifices a pawn to open lines and for a better development } 4…d5 { The main line: the black refused the sacrifice with the idea to attack the white isolated pawn in d4 } 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.cxd4 Bg4 7.Be2 Bb4+ ( 7…Bxf3 8.Bxf3 Qxd4 9.Bxc6+ { and the white wins the queen } ) 8.Nc3 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 Qc4 10.Qb3 Qxb3 { the d4 pawn is poisoned } ( 10…Qxd4 11.O-O Nge7 12.Bxc6+ Nxc6 13.Re1+ Kf8 14.Re4 { the white advantage is clear,
the black king is very bad } ) 11.axb3 Nge7 12.Be3 O-O-O 13.O-O a6 14.Ra4!? { to defend the d-pawn without to place the rook in d1 } 14…Bd6 15.Rc1 f5 16.g3 { it prevents f4 } 16…Rhf8 17.Bg5!? h6 18.Bxe7 Nxe7 19.b4! { We use the weak pawns ( doubled pawn ) to attack the enemy. This idea is very good, because at the same time we remove a our weakness to create a new weakness at the opponent } 19…c6 20.b5 axb5 21.Nxb5 Kb8 22.Nc3! { in this position the Knight is stronger than the bishop for this reason the exchange is a mistake. } 22…g5 23.b4 g4 24.Bg2 f4 25.Be4 ( 25.b5! f3 26.Bf1 ) 25…Nc8 26.b5 Nb6 27.Ra2 c5 28.Na4 Nxa4 29.Rxa4 fxg3 30.hxg3 Rfe8 31.dxc5 Be5 32.b6 ( 32.c6!! { it wins immediately } 32…bxc6 ) 32…Rd4 33.Rca1 Rxa4 34.Rxa4 Rc8 35.Ra7 Rxc5 36.Rxb7+ Kc8 37.Re7 Rb5 38.b7+ Kb8 39.Re8+ Kc7 40.Rc8+ Kd7 41.Bc6+
1-0

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