Helloween Gambit

[King]

Here is one of the most craziest gambit-openings. The Halloween Gambit, also known as the Müller-Schulze Gambit or Leipzig Gambit, is an aggressive gambit in chess, in which White sacrifices a knight for just one pawn. It is a branch of the normally staid Four Knights Game. The theoretician Oskar Cordel reported in 1888 that Leipzig club players used it to dangerous effect but he did not believe it was sound.

Brause-N.N., German Internet Chess Server 1997 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5 Nxe5 5.d4 Ng6 6.e5 Ng8 7.Bc4 c6 8.Qf3 f6 9.O-O d5 10.exd6 Bxd6 11.Ne4 N8e7? 12.Qxf6!! gxf6? 13.Nxf6+ Kf8 14.Bh6# 1-0

Brause-N.N., Internet Chess Club 1997 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5 Nxe5 5.d4 Nc6 6.d5 Nb8 7.e5 Ng8 8.d6 Nc6 9.Nb5 cxd6 10.exd6 Bxd6? (10...Qf6) 11.Qxd6 Qe7+ 12.Be3 Qxd6 13.Nxd6+ Kf8 14.Bc4 Ne5 15.Bb3 Ne7 16.0-0-0 f6 17.f4 Ng4 18.Rhe1 (threatening 19.Bc5 and 20.Nxc8 Rxc8 21.Rxd7) 1-0

It seems it is like a good opening

[Meister]

In the first game, 7...d5! is stronger, with advantage to Black. But very few people know this refutation or remember it over the board.

[David]

Yes, nobobdy knows something about it really and when they face it in a blitz game they have no idea what it going on

I would not play it in a OTB game though

[Royce]

I have played the game of Halloween Gambit about which you have discussed briefly and i really enjoyed a lot to play such an amazing game.

[granturismo4ad]

I have played the game of Halloween Gambit about which you have discussed briefly and i really enjoyed a lot to play such an amazing game.

Have you had any trouble with it as White?

[Crossroad]

I think he (1 post) has no clue what the Halloween Gambit is about and just wanted to post the link (which has nothing to with chess whatsoever) in his signature there...