Four hundred games like this. Twelve moves
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If you filter using only Rapid, Classical, and Correspondence games from 2200 to 2500 rating, then there are zero games with this final position.
It starts with a mistake on move 4.
"... [After 1 e4 e5 2 d4 exd4 3 c3] Black has a very simple and solid defence in 3...d5. ..." - Fundamental Chess Openings (2009) by GM Paul van der Sterren
"The best way to refute a gambit is to accept it." - Steinitz
Hence 4...cxb2.
>"The best way to refute a gambit is to accept it." - Steinitz
Hence 4...cxb2.
Not always. An example: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 and if white takes the bait with 4.Nxe5 he can fall into bad positions very quickly.
There is a difference between a trap and a gambit.
To refute a gambit, accept it, but do not fall into any trap.
>There is a difference between a trap and a gambit.
To refute a gambit, accept it, but do not fall into any trap.
Queens gambit? How about this?
Catalan Opening is more a gambit than Queen's Gambit.
Queen's Gambit is sound and not refutable, though accepting it is still viable.
"... [1 e4 e5 2 d4 exd4 3 c3 d5] Black could have taken the pawn and played one of the several gambits arising from that move, but it is simpler to play according to the text. ..." - A Primer of Chess by Capablanca
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