How many gambits are hidden inside the BISHOPS Opening?

Against Ponziani attempts again f5 the Ponziani countergambit is effective and easy for white to go wrong.

I would suggest you obtain a copy of "The Bishop's Opening Explained" by Gary Lane, it's a 2004 book produced by Batsford.

Here is a win with the dangerous Ponziani countergambit.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/121558830689

yes, but that is not Bishops Opening. No Bc4 at the start.

No indeed, but I had mentioned the Ponziani in connection with the surprise value of f5 countergambit, since it came up next time I played, I thought I might include it for context, maybe not the time or place, if so sorry.

Here is another gambit that can be played by black. It is called the Ponziani-Steiniz gambit and comes out of the defense where black develops both knights and white tries the knight attack line (Ng5). The gambit is not really sound for black and it is basically +1.6 advantage for white if they know to play Bxf7+. 

However, if white does not know this and instead plays Nxf7 then black can get a powerful counter attack. (And Nxe4 is also very bad for white)

Of course, the Evans Gambit can also happen after the bishops opening. It would happen if Black plays Nc6 and then Bc5.

And you can also get into the Fried liver attack. Not sure if you could call it a gambit

Here is an interesting one. The FOUR PAWNS gambit. Comes from the Boi variation and as the name suggests, white will give up 4 pawns! But this gambit can be very dangerous for black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tph-FburRo

A few more gambits in here for, black and for white.

https://lichess.org/study/W8ufLuQo/ckr1bd04

Black: Khan Gambit, Lewis counter gambit,

White:  Lopez Gambit, the Greco gambit, Petroff gambit,

Here is another one for white, against the solid (but boring) Philidor Defense by black (d6).

Morphy Gambit. Play d4 to break open the center, and when they take, we dont retake with Queen and give them a target. we play Nf3. If you are lucky, they will get greedy and do reckless moves in order to keep the extra pawn

https://www.chess.com/game/live/122534685185

I have played this a number of times reccently at the Club. Via the move order e4 e5 Nf3 d6 d4 ed Bc4. Has been quite successful for me.

Please post some of your games. would be interesting to see how the moves unfold. If Nc6 or Nf6, can we play Ng5?

I play the Ponziani Gambit a lot

Here is another gambit by black, from the Italian (Nc6) line by black. Only foolish players fall for it, which is why it caught me out a couple of times! The Blackburne Shilling gambit!

White should NOT take that poison pawn on e5. Instead, trade knights and white has a good position.

Here is a nice gambit for White. The Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit. It has been said it is a revrse version of the Stafford Gambit, with an extra tempo. So its very good, and so many ways for black to lose!