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Today I met my friend at a library for an hour to play some chess. Today for some reason I was in a funk and this guy wiped the floor with my ass. I need help.

He always plays outrageous gambit lines I'm not familiar with. I need to take this guy out of his game and force him to play mine. I need some quick lines to get into with both White and Black. Any help would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime...if anybody has any links to opening books that are strictly gambit lines I'd love to get them and configure with either Chessbase, Rybka or Arena. Thanks.

My suggestion: The Urusov Gambit.

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/uru ... index.html

^Unless your opponent is an expert on the Urusov you can easily memorize the main variation and come out of it with an extra pawn, better mobility or even a piece ahead!

(Opponent may transpose to the two Knights defense

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/uru ... index.html
)

As for black, it's quite simple, play the Pirc system:

1...d6 2...g6 3...Bg7 4...Nf6 5...0-0 (or different orders)

Then, depending on the position you could play 6...c5 or 6...Nd7, etc.

The thing is you can play this against pretty much anything and it'll be solid, you'll also avoid many gambit lines.

If you're trying to avoid Gambit openings.

As white -

you could try Colle System. Perfect against any gambit players. It doesn't allow them to build up the risky initiative control positions.

As Black -

against d4: Probably Slav. could also be dutch.

against e4: Caro Kann