Let's play the Rousseau Gambit
Let's learn the Rousseau Gambit! I don't even know where to begin with this opening... it is SO aggressive. It is SO trappy. Best of all, it is SO fun. We begin with pawn to e5.
Let's continue with the Rousseau Gambit
We'll defend our pawn with knight to c6 next. So far this is all standard stuff. The fun begins on the next move.
Let's execute the Rousseau Gambit
The next move is just disgusting. I guarantee your opponent has never seen it before and I guarantee you'll win a LOT of games with it: pawn to f5. Yup, we're giving away a pawn AND exposing our king. Trust me and do it :)
White defended their pawn with the knight. Pretty normal move, right? Looks harmless enough. But actually… nope. That little knight just lost white the whole game. I'm serious. Pawn takes pawn on e4.
Now we just play pawn to d5, forking the knight and bishop, and white can resign.
We're winning a piece. We're winning the game.
OK so we gambited our pawn, now what? Well, now we can push our pawn to e4 and attack that helpless knight on f3.
We scared the knight away, now let's scare the bishop. Pawn to d5 wins us the whole center.
Boring people would just capture the f5 pawn here. But we're not boring, are we? Queen to g5, attacking the undefended g2 pawn.
That's totally fine - pawn takes bishop on c6.
Time to grab the f5 pawn. We could take it with the bishop, but the queen’s sitting a little uncomfortably where she is. Queen takes f5 cleans things up and puts her on a better square.
We have absolutely smoked white here - just look at their development! Or should I say, their lack-of-development.
We’ve already messed up Black’s pawn structure, so now we can go after the f5 pawn. Our queen’s not looking too comfy on g5—she’s just wide open to attacks. So let’s solve both problems at once with queen takes pawn on f5.
Well done! We're just crushing white here because of our strong central control. The computer gives us a +1.5 point advantage
Now we COULD play bishop takes pawn on f4, to even out the material. But I have a better idea: let's play queen to g5 and attack white's undefended g2 pawn.
It’s time to capture the f5 pawn. Both the bishop and queen could take it, but the queen is exposed on g5 and needs to move soon. Queen takes f5 is best, solving both problems at once.
Two pawns in the center? Check. More pieces developed? Check. Going to win this game? Check.
Woahhhh. White is trying to be SNEAKY. Now that their queen is pinning our pawn to our king, we can no longer take the knight. Well not so fast, white! We can just play queen to e7 and all of a sudden, the threat on the knight is renewed.
White ran away like the cowards they are. Let's play knight to f6 here, to stop white's queen from ever coming to h5, and also to set up a pawn-to-d5 in the future.
Aaaaaaaand game over. We have a deadly move on white that will probably make them quit chess. Knight to d4 attacking the queen AND the c2 pawn.
Dang... white moved their queen AND defended knight to c2. The funny part? We can STILL play knight to c2, completely sacrificing our knight.
Do you see the best move? The move that will make white quit the game? Hint: it's pawn takes pawn on d3, opening up a CHECK to the king and ATTACKING the queen. That means no-matter what white does, that queen is ours.
Pawn. Takes. Queen.
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