When I played for my school, town and county back in the 70s in the UK the Sicilian Dragon was very fashionable so the teams I played in learned to take back th

When I played for my school, town and county back in the 70s in the UK the Sicilian Dragon was very fashionable so the teams I played in learned to take back the initiative with white via the then little-known Morra Gambit - 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cd 3. c3. We also had a line in the Ruy Lopez which took our opponents out of the books early - 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d4. My other, more recognisable favourites were the Benko Gambit (Benoni) and Marshall Attack (Ruy Lopez). All very effective at club level prior to the computerisation of chess.