castling as white after the King's gambit
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Its fine. after 0-0 u could try d4 Nc3 Bf4 Bxf7 Ng5 with a strong attack. Basically there is nothing weak/bad about castling kingside as it acheives 2 goals. Get a rook on the half open f file and get the king to safety.
well the problem with Bc4, is that black can play h6 preparing g5. black does very well just a clear pawn up and with a lot of pawns close to your king. d4 is probably best, but then after g5, there is h4, and while g4 kicks your knight to its home square white is ok- possibly simpler is either bc4 or h3 after g5. but anyway to the original question: castling kingside gets the king semi safe and places the rook on the half-open f file, but sometimes it is better to wait just a little bit longer if castling isn't necessary just to preserve the option of castling queenside. here's a nigel short game http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1079886
I am trying to get to grips with the king's gambit, simply to have more interesting games. Even though I play this gambit, I still try to castle as early as possible, as shown in the diagram below. Any observations?
Is the castling move weak? Is a queen's side castle preferable? I have often found that the 7 square black diagonal (ending on square g1) becomes a problem. Also, is bishop to c4 played too early? Sorry to all you really good players out there for wasting your time with such obvious stuff!