Hello everyone, this is my first post with a game in it so i hope everything works.

 

I recently started playing the king's gambit, only in chess.com because i have some time to think about the opening moves. I think it gives me some interesting games and i might continue with it and start a bit more serious study.

 

I did the annotations without a computers so it might have a lot of errors. If u can help me find some it would be well appreciated :)

 

Thanks

2... Nc6 is interesting because 3. Nf3 f5 is a main line and looks crazy.  I agree that receiving double pawns is fine with your lead in development.  In fact, Fritz 11 gives 8. Bc4 as the correct move.  Black could have put up more resistance with 8... d5, but you would still have a great position after 9. exd5ep.  The rest of the game was nice and clean.  I'm glad you saw Bxf7+!

tonydal wrote: 11... Kg6 12 Qd3+ Kh5 13 g4+ mates next move (the var you gave isn't mate).

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You are right. King just goes back to h5. Am I correct black loses the queen after Qf5 Kh5 Nf3? (still no computer around)

 Thanks for these kind comments and suggestions.

Coming from a very long time King's Gambit player...I think you played that very well. The sac on f7 is very common in the King's Gambit when black wastes a lot of time with silly moves like h6.

nice job

This game is instructive on how to win with the king's gambit if your opponent doesn't know what he's doing, but if you are looking to be able to play strong players in this opening, you need to study some of black's better defense systems such as the fischer, cunningham (maybe the most exciting!), faulkbeer countergambit, and the lines where black protects his pawn with ...g5 early.

rgrizzard wrote: This game is instructive on how to win with the king's gambit if your opponent doesn't know what he's doing, but if you are looking to be able to play strong players in this opening, you need to study some of black's better defense systems such as the fischer, cunningham (maybe the most exciting!), faulkbeer countergambit, and the lines where black protects his pawn with ...g5 early.

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I don't know if I will study this opening yet. Normally I just start playing an opening, get trashed a few times; find out why I got trashed, play another line and get trashed a few moves later :) If I really like it I will study the opening. Untill then, just trial and error.

I get into this position rather often in Vienna game:

 

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 (and now exf4 is bad because of e5 and knight has to go back to g8, the reason to play this) and then occasionally someone answers Nc6. And then you can do the same.

 

So, in fact - your opening is NOT king's gambit but Vienna game, I guess :-)