King's Gambit

[whoismikeyyy]

Originally Posted by gambit8888

^^^ Agreed! Kings Gambit was one of the first openings I learned to play and I still love it, although I use Queeens Gambit way more now and days.

About 5 years ago I had a friend introduce me to chessgames.com and I loved it. Paul Morphys games were the ones that blew my mind and really got me excited about learning the game. To this day, he is my favorite player of all time.

This describes my history with King's Gambit exactly.

It is a great opening to learn as a beginner because it teaches you the basics of controlling the center and attacking. You should have some fun on chess.com with it.

[MikeyObviously]

Treating material with contempt. The 200 point rating cushion emboldened me to try it:

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2012.01.16"]
[White "MikeyObviously"]
[Black "imirjon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1340"]
[BlackElo "1140"]
[TimeControl "10|0"]
[Termination "MikeyObviously won by checkmate"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 d6 3.Nf3 f5 4.Bc4 exf4 5.O-O fxe4 6.d4 exf3 7.Qxf3 Qh4 8.Bxf4 Bg4 9.Qxb7 g5 10.Bg3 Qh5
11.Qxa8 Be7 12.Qxb8+ Bd8 13.Bb5+ Bd7 14.Nc3 Ne7 15.Rae1 Qh6 16.Bxd7+ Kxd7 17.Qb5+ c6 18.Qb7+ Bc7 19.Rxe7+ Kxe7 20.Qxc7+ Ke6
21.Qxd6# 1-0

[DiggertheDog]

short vs Mcshane London chess classic round 7

Nigel plays the Kings gambit

GM Svidler runs through some of the possibilites of the opening within this youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkOyJ6oicKs

try from about 7.00 mins

[smilingbill]

The KG book by Quality Chess is supposedly finally coming out this spring, looking forward to it

[bigpooch]

This could be considered "fun stuff" but this was one gambit I almost never played as White ( as Black, sure! ) not just because of the fact that accepting was viable, but simply declining is perfectly fine for Black players content to equalize ( think about it: if White is playing the King's gambit, he's probably out for blood! ), so I recall from my younger days some IM mentioned in the declined that the 6...a6! move order was best and even though 7. Nd5 Nxd5 8. Bxd5 has scored well in practice, one would have to think that after 8...Bg4, White has almost nothing.

Sure, there's a lot of chess history in the KG and if your opponent accepts the gambit, he usually has to know some theory/ideas to get an okay position, so it's just another way to practice calculating variations.