#1 -5 Most Evil Checkmates For White-Kings Gambit-

In today’s blog I am going to show you the top 5 fastest and most evil checkmates for white coming from the famous Kings Gambit. Not only are these checkmates rather common in the Kings Gambit, they also work wonders against higher rated opponents, with several of the games having players playing with the black pieces having over 2,000 elo!

If you don’t know the Kings Gambit comes from the moves 1.e4 e5 2.f5 this is the Kings Gambit

It is a very sharp opening line with many traps and checkmates the black player needs to be extremely careful of, however a deep dive into it is sadly out of the scope of today's blog, however if this does well I may consider making a full guide sometime in the future. And with that out of the way, lets look as these brilliant checkmates.

After we go for our 2.f4 Kings Gambit, the most popular move for black is 2…exf4. We reply 3.Nf3 and the move they usually play here is 3…g5, trying to hold onto there pawn. Hear we play 4.Nc3, setting up an evil trap! They play 4…g4 5.Ne5 Qh4+ we play 6.g3 fxg3 7.Qg4 attacking the queen and if black trades queens we have better development and will have the advantage in the endgame. But black is a good player and they see that if they play 7…g2+ 8.Qxh4 gxh1=Q and black is completely winning…but that’s what they think!! We play 9.Qh5 and whit is completely winning! But they will still try to defend though, they may play Nh6 but we just play 10.d4, and we will trade of the knight and then go on to have a crushing attack.

Another move more higher rated opponents may try is 10…Be7 which stop Qxf7…But not Nxf7!! Hear black played 11…Nf6 but then we play 12.Nd6+ Kd8 but then 13.Qe8+!! and after Rxe8 we smother mate them with 14.Nf7#.

Checkmate #2

In this variation instead of 4.Nc3 we play 4.Bc4. Hear black plays 4…g4 but then we play 5.O-O! 5…gxf3 and we play 6.Nc3! the most played move is fxg2, but after that we play 7.Bxf7+!! Kxf7 8.Rxf4+ and there is not much they can do. If 8…Ke8 then 9.Qh5+ and its checkmate on the next move. If 8…Nf6 we play 9.e5 Be7 but instead of taking we play 10.Qh5+ Kf8 11.exf6 Be6 12.Qh6 Ke8 13.f7 Ke7 and its checkmate with Nd5#.

Checkmate #3

Sometimes they don’t play 2…exf4 though, and may instead play 2…Nc6 we play 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.d3 and they play 5…Bg4 6.O-O Be7 7.Nc3 and often they play 7…Nd4 taking advantage of your pinned knight…or so they think! We play 8.fxe5 dxe5 and you play 9.Bxf7+!! Kxf7 10.Nxf5 which is a fork to the bishop and the king. Black usually plays 10…Kg8 11.Nxg4 Nxg4 12.Qxg4 and then most often plays 12…Nxc2, thinking they recaptured your pawn, but they never realized that 13.Qe6 is checkmate. Not impressed? Well in the game I just showed you the black players rating was 2,400…I don’t think there is anything more I can add to this.

Checkmate #4

The next game is some of the stuff we are already familiar with, as it is the same as game #2, however, this time after 5…gxf3 we play a more reasonable move which is 6.Qxf3, hear black if he is a higher rated player may see that there f file is rather weak, so what they might play is 6…Bh6 defending there pawn, you play 7.d4, and often they play 7…Nc6 8.Nc3, setting an evil trap up! If your opponent play Nxd4, you play 9.Bxf7+!! Kxf7 10.Qh5+ and blacks goose is cooked. Say they play 10…Kg7, you play, 11.Bxf4 Bxf4 12.Rxf4 Nf6 13.Qg5+ Kf7 14.Raf1 and there is not much they can do, but say they play 14…Qe7 15.Rxf6 Ke8 16.Nd5 Qxe4 because blacks position is completely hopeless, and white finished this off in style with 17.Rf8+ Rxf8 18.Nxc7#. The black players rating was 2,700.

Checkmate #5

In the final line for the day we drop in with the usual accepted variation after black plays 3..g5, but hear we play something different as we go 4.h4 and it puts black into a slight dilemma, as if they play gxh4 all of there king side pawns are weak and white will gobble them all up. If h6 white goes hxg5 and the h pawn is pinned so they cant do that. They could go g4,which is the best move, but we play Ne5, and it gives some problems to white so most people usually don’t play that. The most common move is f6 and I will show you how to play that.

What you play if 4…f6 is 5.Nxg5!! fxg5 and we play 6.Qh5+ Ke7 7.Qxg5 Ke8 you go 8.Qh5+(again) Ke7 9.Qe5+ Kf7 10.Bc4+ Kg6 11.Qf5+ Kg7 12.Qxf7 Kh6 13.Qxf4 Kg7(again) 14.Qf7 Kh6 and finally we end the whole chase with 15.d3+ and the next move is checkmate.

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