It's all downhill from here.

Very beautiful game with the kings gambit! :D

After 6. Ng5 what if black plays 6... f6, what is the best continuation?  Still sac the knight but without getting the pawn back?

Clearly black played ...c6 eleven moves too late!

rofl!

After 6...f6 7.Nh3 gxh3 8.Qh5+ black can "encourage" the perpetual which is why I only play this stuff against players who aren't likely to want a draw when faced with voodoo.

oo kk thanks, ill try to avoid that..

i actually came across this position about an hour ago..

but instead of h4, i did h3 was this accurate?

h3 is too slow for my taste but it's not a bad move by any means. 

When I'm considering moves in the early part of a King's Gambit game, I always ask myself:  Does it further development?  Does it maintain the initiative?  If a move doesn't fulfill one of those two requirements, I usually discard it unless tactics dictate otherwise.  Moves that fulfill both requirements are almost always the best candidates.  Put your Morphy hat on when you play the KG -- it sounds crazy but it helps!  When in doubt, ask yourself: What would Morphy do?

Masterpiece! Looking at your game i am dreaming i will start to play KG myself one day.

lol. Nice game Gonnosuke.

 Lol thats why im starting early.. as i get better as a chess player, my kg skills will also improve.

And thanks gonnosuke, ill stop bothering you,

P.S. a beautiful game to watch! It clearly shows Kings Gambit can be played at a high level.

Gonnosuke... I really enjoyed the game, particularly the second half of the game and the finish. The result was a bit of a fait-accompli (you simplified into what looked to me at first blush like a pretty easily won ending) -- but mortzy managed to make things interesting and set a few problems for you, which you solved with panache!

Ozzie... any advice on how to handle the panov-botvinnik attack?  

Looking at that game just leaves me wanting more! 

JG27Pyth: I play the rather straightforward Nimzo style defense to the Panov.

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Bb4

Nice game! I remember wasting endless hours as a kid trying to find a forced win for White in this line I may play it again in blitz after seeing this!

That's funny because I did the same thing as a kid with the Muzio Gambit!  I was convinced there was a hidden win somewhere....

Sounds like romance isn't the only thing that's not dead.... 

idk what the heak this is suppost 2 be!!!!!!

Nice game Gonnosuke but I don't trust Rh7. What about Be6 instead? With two pieces behind I don't trust the attack then....

Romance and a wet dream, all in the same game.  If that isn't incentive for the tactics trainer, I don't know what is.

I've never played the Halloween Gambit in a game that mattered.  Ever.  It's great for thematic tournaments or to play for fun but that's about it.

I probably play the Ruy Lopez about twice as often as the King's Gambit but I rarely, if ever, take the strength of the opponent into consideration.  I've played them both against players of all strengths.

As far as 4.Nc3 goes, I play it to avoid the Kieseritsky lines which are very well known and widely studied.  In contrast, 4.Nc3 is pretty obscure and often leads to the kind of mistakes that black made here where he tried to transpose into Fischers Defense and inadvertently allowed me to play an Allgaier Gambit with an extra tempo -- very, very dangerous!

I should note that 4.Nc3 is the gateway to the Quaade Gambit (4...g4 5.Ne5), the Rosentreter Gambit Declined (4...Bg7 5.d4) and the McLeod Defense (4...Nc6) which often transposes into the Hamppe-Allgaier Gambit.