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Here's an obscure but wonderful old game that's worth a minute or two of your time. The opening begins as a Staunton Gambit, an opening straight from the romantic age of chess. This gambit is usually an effort by white to gain time for an attack by offering a pawn, but it's black who gains the initiative by offering more interesting material.


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