What Is a Gambit? | Chess Video Lecture | Chess Tutorial Course: Beginner to Advanced - Class 6

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hi this is David Sullivan for chess NYC
now I'd like to talk about the center
and gambits in chess we generally try to
bring our two pawns to the center of the
board to free our pieces and also if
black pieces come out we can use that
Center to move forward and attack black
but black will try to stop us from
making our center if we play let's say e
for black might play e5 and then if we
play our other center point out right
away point to d4 black can take the pawn
white can take back with the Queen but
then black will develop a piece
attacking the queen making it waste time
by moving again and then black will
develop another piece and then all of a
sudden black has more big guys out then
white black has two pieces developed
white only has one piece developed pawns
are not considered pieces they're just
points so white wants to bring the two
Center pawns out but black is fighting
against it with his first move he's
saying well you bring this pawn out I
will take you right away white can use
in this position what's known as a
gambit gambit comes from the Italian
word gambito which means to trip up so
white is trying to trip up black white
place his pawn to f4 he offers black a
pawn black can take the white pawn and
white won't be able to capture back well
white is trying to do is deflect the
pawn so that later they'll be able to
more easily bring his other center pawn
up and black won't be able to take it
another example of a gambit and this is
an opening that shows up in my own games
occasionally is when I would play white
I would often play d4 black plays Knight
f6 I go c4 and black plays c5 I advanced
my pawn to d5 and then black plays his
pawn to b5 this is known as the Banco
gambit black intends to offer me a pawn
and then offer me another pawn so that
later in the game he'll have to open
lines for his rooks that he can use to
put pressure on me down here for your
entertainment I will show you what I
used to play against this when they play
b5 and then a six
we play my Knight to c3 developing a
piece black would take to pawn this pawn
is unprotected but I don't grab it I
play pawn to e4 I free my Bishop black
attacks my knight I bring my knight to
b5 and now it looks like my pawn on e4
is hanging that is it's unprotected
but if black takes my pawn on e4 I can
then attack his Knight and if his Knight
runs away
I have Knight to d6 checkmate smothered
mate so here we have black offering a
gambit white declining the gambit then
white offers black upon and if he takes
the pawn he will get checkmated these
were two examples of gambits to give you
a little idea of what we're talking
about here as with any subject in chess
we could talk about this for months
but just remember gambits are basically
it's a small sacrifice in order to make
some sort of game
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