Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated Damen Gambit The conscientious student

The conscientious student

Study training

The tournament was originally intended to determine Capablanca's challenger

Figurine Notation

that play is often chaotic and positions are frequently irrational

Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated Damen Gambit The conscientious studentWhich 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