Cliff Teaches Chess - Opponent Botez Gambit In 2 Almost Identical Sequential Games Diff Opponents
Channel: Cliff Hulcoop Official
Date: 23/05/2022

I played 2 virtually identical games against 2 different online opponents one game after the next.
In both cases they did a "Botez Gambit" (blundered their queens).
They both had the option instead of moving their queens to safety or doing a Queen exchange.
After losing their queens, both of them resigned.
What can we learn from this.
The lesson is that it is possible to lose your queen very early on in the game if you are not careful, and you should beware of QxQ.
The seemingly innocent moving of a pawn can be lethal.
I think the odds of this happening in 2 games one after the other from anyone in the world on the system are astronomical, but it happened.

Game Links:
https://www.chess.com/game/live/46640999555
https://www.chess.com/game/live/46641043503