Originally Posted by JacksonWShowalter
Good post with sound advice! Therefore nobody’s going to listen to it. BTW it seems Dutch players are well prepared for the main lines and even the Staunton Gambit then along comes 2.Bg5 and they get flummoxed. I’ve scored a couple nice miniatures with it. Here's one vs. a 1700...a postal game no less:
http://chess.maribelajar.com/chesspu...?id=1183809035 |
Um. Try the Staunton or the Lebedyev-Barden on me and you're likely to draw. While I find the Staunton an okay line (for white) in the frisky moods, I'd play the Fianchetto systems if I would bother with 1. d4.
I've played lots of games in the Lebedyev-Barden (2. Bg5) and haven't lost a game. I tried various approaches including the funny kill-that-bishop lines
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It's true though that 2. Bg5 is a tad annoying. Why would white want to keep black from setting up a normal Dutch formation? Going into normal lines gives white much more of an edge in my opinion, then again that doesn't count for much on lower levels of play.
As for the Staunton, well, you need to be paying attention as black obviously since it'll kill you in a second if you don't. Usually, in my experience, a bunch of trades take care of everything.