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Some players have believed that chess is almost dead. That there is no more to be discovered in the openings. That you have to memorize 20 moves deep to play a correct game of chess. I do not believe that this is true. There are still many new and exciting opening lines to discover. Chess is still vast and unexplored. I started playing tournament chess with regular orthodox chess openings such as the Ruy Lopez, French Defense, Sicilian Defense, Colle System, Caro-Kann Defense, Stonewall Attack & etc. And I used to play a more positional type of game. I first played the Latvian Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5) in tournament games and was not discouraged by my initial loss with this gambit. The Latvian Gambit took me from a USCF Class D rating to a Class A rating. I went on to improve it with every tournament I had played in. And I scored many wins with the Latvian. It was not till I had discovered the Queens Pawn Grob Opening (1.d4 Nf6 2.g4) that I did win the Hawaii State Chess Championship. And it was not till I had correspondence with Hugh E. Myers of Myers Openings Bulletins that I had realized that I was not the first to play this gambit. It had been played by a number of other players such as the late actor Humphrey Bogart, GM David Bronstein, Claude Bloodgood and a whole host of other players. The gambit had later been officially named the Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit.
Over the years, I have submitted my game scores and chess articles to be published by Rand Springer, that German Theoretical Chess Openings Magazine, which is no longer in print. I also had two articles published in the New England Chess Publication called Chess Horizons. My first article was on the Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.g4) and the second on the Halasz Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.f4). You can find my name listed in Eric Schiller’s chess books such as the “Big Book of Busts”, “Unorthodox Chess Openings Vol. 2”, “Gambit Chess Openings” and “A Gambit Repertoire for White”. And two of my games were featured in that recent article called “Come to the Dark Side” by Tim McGrew of Gambit Cartel at www.chesscafe.com. We are still very much trapped by what we believe in. A lot of players will never play chess openings which are considered unsound. For example my friend National Master Reynolds Takata once declared that there can be no gambit played against the moves 1.d4 d5 2. Nf3 because 2…e5 cannot be played because it drops a pawn with either 3.dxe4 or 3.Nxe5. But after having played the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3) and the Omega Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.e4), I believed that the move 2…e5 was possible. It leads to 2 types of gambit positions. After 2…e5 3.dxe5 f6 we have a reversed Blackmar-Diemer Gambit type of position. And after 2…e5 3.Nxe5 Nc6 4.Nxc6 bxc6 we have a reversed Omega Gambit type of position from the Black side. Even playing some gambit like the Medusa Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g5) can be beneficial in practice games. It is not sound but your tactical part of your game can improve by learning the tactics involved in that gambit.
The Omega Ω Gambit Part 2. Here in Part 2 we look at the Gambit Declined: 1.d4 Nf6 2.e4 and now Black can decline the gambit by 2...d6; 2...e6; 2...g6; 2...c6; 2...c5; 2...d5; or 2...e5.
Franco-Hive Gambit Part 2 - The Franco-Hiva Gambit Declined. "Your opponents will not always take the gambit pawns at f5, e6 and at d7. In fact they may not take any of the pawns starting with the pawn at f5..."
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1986 I had won the Hawaii State Chess Championship in a three way tie for
first. There were no tie breaks then, so we were all declared
co-champions. It was not till 1987 that I had won the Hawaii State
Chess Championship with a score of 5 ½ points out of 6 rounds with no tie
for first place. My closest rival had 4 ½ points. In that same
year I received my Master’s certificate from the U.S. Chess Federation for
achieving the Masters rating of 2205. Over the years I have won
various tournaments such as the Hawaii State Class Championship where I
defeated fellow expert Patrick Perry for the championship of the
Expert/Master section of this tournament. I have since played in a
number of Hawaii International Chess Tournaments during the 1990’s. My
best result was 4 wins, 3 losses and 3 draws for a plus score. It was
the best result among Hawaii players that did participate in the
International for that year. It was not a bad result considering that
my only losses were to GM Eduard Gufeld, GM Pavel Blatny and to IM Anthony
Saidy.
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