What is the point of Evans Gambit?
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The point of Evans gambit is to get two or three tempi by sacrificing a pawn. White sacrifice a pawn in order to control the center and fast development in the opening phase. Now its up to your level whether you can convert these tempi into decisive advantage or not. Its my personal recommendation tRead more
The point of Evans gambit is to get two or three tempi by sacrificing a pawn. White sacrifice a pawn in order to control the center and fast development in the opening phase. Now its up to your level whether you can convert these tempi into decisive advantage or not. Its my personal recommendation that if you are below 2000 elo then you should not play this gambit because at that level its very hard to get advantage.
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