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How do you play the Kings Gambit?

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AndyClifton
Nov 10, 2012
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#41
Estragon wrote:
This is the logical fallacy of "appeal to authority" - the idea that if someone respected agrees with a proposition, no matter how false or ridiculous, it must be correct.

Still, ultimately that's what opening manuals consist of. Wink

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DrFrank124c
Nov 12, 2012
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#42

very carefully!

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raindog308
Nov 12, 2012
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#43

I'm a pretty low-rated player and play the KG for a couple reasons:

  1. At my level, a loss of a pawn never decides the game.  It's always tactics in the middle game.  There is no point in my carefully playing some 9-move variation of the QGD to get to +/= if a couple moves later I or my opponent loses a bishop to a tactic.  So other than completely bad or silly openings, "everything is playable".
  2. The KG (declined or accepted) immediately launches into an open, tactical game.  No old stodge games.