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I was wondering about a line I have been looking at springing on the next person who decides to play ex f4 against me just some analysis it is probably vary wrong, but hey its a starting point

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What do you recommend against Keene's line:

Hello I played this "Bishop's Gambit" and got trapped up in this novel little fork trick on 6... Nxe4. Is this a common trap; may I please have some advice on how to play this better; such as what the main lines are, etc. Merci.

In our King's Gambit thematic match vs. Team Klitschkco, our first win was procurred by waynedickinson2, a Herculean feat considering the rating difference:

What lines or systems do you like against 2...Bc5? Usually it goes 3.Nf3 d6 then the main choices are 4.c3, Nc3, and Bc4. Which do you like?

Some had asked how to post a game. Here are the steps graphically:Open your game and grab the pgn. You can either open it with a chess program and get the pgn that way or save it and open it in a text editor, like notepad, and copy it to clipboard. After you have the pgn in clipboard, go to the forums and start a topic (or go to a topic that already exists). Give your topic a title and then click on the chessboard icon as circled below. This will open a separate editing window. This is the editing window. Choose "game or sequence of moves" if posting a game. Then click "continue." On the page that comes up, paste your pgn into the text area marked "Use a PGN file." Click "continue." In this page you can make comments, insert variations or flip the board to Black on bottom. If you don't want any of these things, just continue on... This page allows you to insert, delete, change information that will appear on the final board. Most of it will have been inserted automatically from the pgn. This page allows you to chose a color scheme, piece type, board size (if a puzzle) and whether you want to display coordinates. You can now either preview the board to see how it looks, or go ahead and insert it into your posting. When you insert it, it will just show as a place-marker, not the actual board until you submit it. I usually "save" it first so I can look at it to be sure everything is A-OK before I actually submit it. Hit "Submit" and your work is done.

I won my remaining game in the KG Thematic match in spite of several very poor moves on my part. The opening seemed pretty much book. On move 9 my opponent played g5 attacking my Bishop (and loosening up his own Kingside). My proper response was likely to retreat my Bishop but I didn't like any of my choices, so I sacked it for two pawns and the initiative, but I had no real attack. After a few more moves I was worried that I had really goofed up. But I was able to force a trade that left me up the exchange and though with one less piece, I was up in material points, had the initiative and a safer King, so I was confident of a win once again.Shortly after, my opponent blundered away a Bishop, so I was really ahead in material. I was able to win his Knight and was really anticipating a resignation, but in a couple more moves I blundered away my Rook on move 35 - nothing short of chess-blindness (he had moved where I didn't expect and I moved as if he had moved where I expected). But my material advantage and preponderance of pawns, even without the Rook was telling and winning was just a matter of patience. The entire game was too poorly played by both sides to be instructive at any level.

POSSIBLE CONTINUATIONS: movegameswhite win / draw / black win5...gxf3 40 42.5% 52.5% 5...d5 10 40% 60% 5...Qe7 7 85.71% I had seen the game between GM Nakamura and . And frankly, I was really astounded! It was as if the opponents in this game were not trying even their best!

I lightly annotated my recent win against my opponent in the King's Gambit Thematic Match against the team Earth, Air, Fire, Water. My opponent had a fairly low rating yet surprised me with some of his good moves, most, however, made from a weakened position. Even with my positional advantage which started in the opening, he had me very worried several times throughout the game. I'd like to comment his fighting spirit.

The King's Gambit, like most gambits, is ripe for unsuspected attacks and brilliant combinations and mates. I though a thread dedicated to brilliant play might be appropriate. I'm reposting this from a blog entry of mine called, A Clever Little King's Gambit: Karl Lepge (1831-1890) and August Saalbach (seemingly 1800-1864) played a series of games, two of which are recorded in Fiske's (and Morphy's) 1860 Chess Monthly. Both Lepge and Saalbach had some loses published in Schachzeitung against Anderssen and Paulsen. They were all played even, so apparently they were both players of some force. In this KGA (Bishop's Gambit) game however, Saalbach loses to Lepge's clever, some might say brilliant, play:

Guys, need a little help. I am finding pitfalls and cons of the Algaier gambit , which is one of my favourites as well as one of the master variation used even upto the 20th century! Main line: I am keeping my finger at this one: Any others?, by which black can make white sweat all over the board???

Guys, add yours. I would be grateful because I am in a mental trauma lately, because I won a game accidently which I blundered badly.... Thanks! I was black in the first game and white in the second!

This has been the very soul of the deepest of all tactical play. Amazing game: a tribute to Andersson

I feel that since we are all KG fans here we need to post our wins somewhere. here is one of my better games with it.