I Invented a Horrible New Gambit and Beat Stockfish with It

I guess all I do these days is beat Stockfish with dubious chess openings. This new gambit is a fun weapon against the Evans Gambit but play at your own risk. It is objectively very, very bad.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Here are the games if you want to analyze them on your own:

0:00 Intro and Opening Lecture
9:42 Game 1 Against Stockfish
15:39 Game 2 Against Stockfish

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[JonathanSchrantz]

The Fishslayer Countergambit seems to be the most popular name by far so I'm down to call it that from now on. How do we feel about it?

[williamsmith]

The "Fishslayer Countergambit" seems like a fitting nickname lol

[pulpogaraje]

"This blunders a rook" well, thats one way to look at it.

[LeventK]

Plot twist: He is actually another engine inventing dubious gambits.

[Erin-ksjp]

How about the "Garum counter-gambit." Garum is a sauce primarily used in ancient mediterranean cuisine - such as the cuisine of ancient rome. It is made by fermenting fish, and so just like the positions you get after playing this opening, it has a tendency to initally smell *extremely* bad - but if done properly, can lead to some nice circumstances (just as Garum does actually work on quite a few dishes).

Plus, since it was part of ancient roman cuisine - it just about fits into the name-scheme for variations of the itallian game.

[dbfurrer]

Pisa Tower gambit: the pawn structure looks like a falling tower, also the gambit itself seems like it won't hold but somehow it does ;)

[amrramsey]

"King to e2 is obviously the first thing they would say on twitch" 😂😂
4:05

[jakobegger]

Since Evans was a seafaring captain, my best name for this is "the shipwreck":

[kvineet]

I tried it myself and now stockfish is giving back the knight on move 16 on f4 after 15.Rf3 thus refuting the entire attack and maintaining the winning advantage. it somehow became smarter.

[mikeseay]

The queen has a gambit. The king has a gambit. Well gosh darn it why dont we give a gambit to the people? “The pawn’s gambit”

[aceofclubness]

No One:
Schrantz: "eyetalian"

[acopping]

Kraken Counter Gambit, Evans was a sailor, and saying KCG sounds sliiick, pluse the mass of pawns could resemble a kraken coming out the water

[DionysisGalanis]

16:21 Looks like a *"Italian game Evans Gambit Black Snake CounterAttack"*

[speedycyclone]

14:29 the moment when the stockfish eval says: Hey thats not fair!

[Shabangs]

Lol stockfishs last brain cell was playing that last game lmao

[moshestein]

Worked it through with stockfish. Basically the 17th move in the game Nbc3 (12th as it shows up in the vid) is a massive blunder by the computer after which black has mate in 19. If stockfish thinks for more than 2 seconds it doesn't make that mistake.

[thetigers]

Wow, big brains my dude .. 200 iq prep
Not gonna lie when i saw that title i was expecting stockfish 4 or 5. Respect

[hershfam]

serpents gambit, since the pawns almost look like a snake slithering

[twelfthdoc]

The "Giuoco Mezzo". All the pawns end up in the middle, and any musician will tell you that mezzo is a step up from piano!

[drloremipsumedary]

"Snave Gambit", because it's fun to say, and it's Evans backwards. Simple as that.