page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 99  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Kieseritzky vs Horwitz 1-0 56 1846 London m1 A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 2. Krefeld vs Amsterdam ½-½ 52 1853 City Match A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 3. Owen vs Anderssen 1-0 46 1862 London A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 4. Blackburne vs Steinitz   ½-½ 20 1862 London A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 5. Blackburne vs Steinitz 0-1 19 1862 London A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 6. Owen vs Anderssen   1-0 45 1862 London A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 7. Jaenisch vs Kolisch   1-0 83 1863 St Petersburg A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 8. C Golmayo vs Steinitz 0-1 21 1867 Paris A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 9. A Blackmar vs A Labry 1-0 14 1876 Unknown A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 10. Lasker vs Bird 1-0 38 1899 06.27 R21 GBR London A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 11. Blackburne vs Bird 1-0 39 1899 London A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 12. A Hodges vs E Hymes   0-1 36 1900 New York A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 13. Gunsberg vs Von Popiel ½-½ 46 1902 Monte Carlo# A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 14. Leonhardt vs Chigorin   0-1 25 1905 Barmen Masters A, GER A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 15. V Sjoberg vs Tarrasch 1-0 39 1911 Skivarp free games A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 16. Bogoljubov vs S Langleben   1-0 32 1912 All Russian Amateur Tt A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 17. Ed Lasker vs Alekhine 0-1 46 1913 London m (03) A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 18. Marshall vs J Michelsen   1-0 39 1915 Masters Tournament A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 19. Goldschmied vs Preinhalter 1-0 20 1916 ? A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 20. G Oskam vs Tartakower   0-1 35 1920 Utrecht it A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 21. Tartakower vs Mieses   ½-½ 37 1921 The A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 22. J Schweiger vs Tartakower 0-1 32 1921 Budapest HUN A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 23. Teichmann vs Mieses   ½-½ 27 1922 4, Teplitz-Schonau it GER A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 24. Euwe vs Weenink 1-0 34 1923 Amsterdam A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 25. Tartakower vs Mieses 1-0 15 1925 Baden-Baden A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 99    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

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May-16-04    Minor Piece Activity: This has a really bad win percentage, but I hear that it's considered deadly. Is it overrated? I don't play 1. d4, but I do play the Dutch. =D May-16-04    Lawrence: <MPA>, I don't see that A82 and A83 are all that bad. Jun-13-04    Bad Star: Opening of the day. Theoretically the Staunton Gambit leads to equality, I think. That said, it may be one of the strongest answers to the dutch at the club-level where people don't know their theory. Jul-29-05    Giancarlo: I've played against the stauton gambit a few times. If I recall it was dangerous. However I think I had winning numbers against it. To be precise 3 wins, 1 loss, and 3 draws Sep-07-05    admeyer: I did a web search for info on this opening because there are not a whole lot of games in databases and opening books tend to ignore it for the most part. I know it is not the greatest system for black, but it virtually is all you need to play against any of white's most mainline first move choices. I got to it because of my need to avoid the Pirc with black. Against d4 players, my favorite is, 1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5! where I have an excellent record. The only set back was that when I played against tougher opposition, I would too often get: 1.d4 d6 2.e4 and I would go into the Modern which I was never too crazy about. I started looking for early deviations against this and saw the best way out was 2.f5, and although white should retain an opening advantage, the position is more than playable for black. I was then shocked to see so little of this system mentioned anywhere. I am far from a professional player and I have very little time to devote to chess. At this point, I only have time to play online. I don't want to spend what little time I have for the game studying openings and have found a way to tighten-up my repertoire so that I can concentrate more on the middle and end game phases of chess. Sep-07-05    Juan De Pisto: I have seen this some time ago, seems an interesting choice for a gambit player, and after all if a solid player like Staunton played it, then must be not so "unsound". Mar-19-06    WTHarvey: Here is a little collection of winning combinations in the A82 Staunton miniatures: http://www.wtharvey.com/a82.html Oct-31-06    GeauxCool: Five Chapters of Info, annotated games, on this opening Part 1 http://www.chessville.com/UCO/TRNT/... Part 2 http://www.chessville.com/UCO/TRNT/... Part 3 http://www.chessville.com/UCO/TRNT/... Part 4 http://www.chessville.com/UCO/TRNT/... Part 5 http://www.chessville.com/UCO/TRNT/... Nov-27-08    refutor: inspired by Keith Hayward's analysis (linked to by GeauxCool above, although i found them separately) i have been taking up 1.d4 f5 2.e4 d6 as a way to decline the Staunton gambit and it's fun for blitz. i'm sure that rybka would rip me up but tartakower gave it a go (by transposition admittedly, but declining the lisitsin gambit which is another interesting try) so it can't be completely terrible :) Bogoljubov vs Tartakower, 1936

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