Who here are gambiting people? I am. I sacrifice pretty much anything to win.
The only gambit I play regularly is the Queen's Gambit. I prefer to sacrifice material later in the game when we're both out of book and thinking on our own. The positive side of gambits is that they help you practice yours tactics right from the get-go and that's one area most class players need to focus on to improve.
isn't the queen's gambit not technically a gambit?
If Black immediately accepts the gambit pawn, White can force its recapture (or play on in gambit style). But if Black immediately declines the gambit pawn and then plays the Slav (any variant but the exchange) he can take and keep it.
This is a nice collection of king's gambit ames on chessbase:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1002999
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