IS KING GAMBIT A GOOD OPENING

It's a tactically sharp fighting gambit for Players who aren't afraid take some risks and spill a little blood and wood :)

i dont really like the kings gambit.

im more used to the queens gambit....

I like to play 2... Bc5. It's a good response and no one studies the Kings Gambit Declined anymore!

it's still used by gm's..but then gm's use some pretty bad moves sometimes..

I would guess (maybe someone out there knows, batgirl perhaps) that about half of the World Champions, have at one point played the King's Gambit. Seems enough of a recommendation for mere mortals (and yes! the undead) to play it. It's a fun, risky affair that no one seems to have truly mastered. It's great in blitz play and scares many a player of the black pieces. Like many of the romantic openings, events can soon become tactical, a real seat of the pants experience. The proper question is, do you have the testicular fortitude to reach out and push that pawn to f4? If easily scared then forget it!

People say its rarely played in high level tournaments, if you mean like GM tournaments or rating of 2000+ than ok i can understand why GM's dont play it. Its part of the fact that it is well known for GMs but also that many people dont adapt well to playing the Kings gambit, they dont like how its played or whatever. And even if a lot of people know about it, and counters... doesn't mean its gunna work all the time. I have been using the KG for a long time now and still am curently. I use it in my high level tournaments 1900+ and such... and i mostly win because of it. Yes there are books saying do this if white does that. But the moves go up to what, like move 12 or something. Than afterwards alot of people are clueless. Plus I don't do the moves from the book deliberatly to confuse the other player, the moves i do still benifit my position. Here is an example, face to face game, friendly the guy had a rating of 2195 or something close to that. I play as white. Time control of 1 hour and 30 minutes. (also please note i dont know the symbols in English, when i write my games i right them in Russian format so ill just spell out the names) The game starts:   1. E4, E5. 2. F4, ExF4. 3. Knight F3, Bishop E7. 4. H4, G5. 5. Hg, Bishop G5. 6. Knight G5, Queen G5. 7. Queen F3, D6. 8. D4, Bishop G4. 9. Queen F4, Queen A5+. 10. Knight C3, Bishop E6. 11. D5, Bishop D7. 12. Bishop E2, Knight A6. 13. 0-0, Queen B6+. 14. Bishop E3, Queen B2. 15. Queen F7+, King D8. 16. Bishop G5... and black resigns. I asked him why he played so poorly, but being a good sport i still said he was very good and such, just asked "Why did you play weak this match" he said "because i was suprised the way you played, I've seen other people do similair moves but what you were playing caught me off guard". We played one more time and i played as white again, and i played KG again just to see what he did differently. End result of the rematch was a draw. My point being, KG is a great opening, you can even use it in High level tournaments, or against high level players. Just as long as you know the KG throughly and the most important part of the KG is you add your own touch not go by book games. You have to change moves around, get comfortable. Just put your soul in it and you will see a significant change.

Thank you for taking the time to read and examine(if you did) the game. If you don't aprove or believe this than i dont know what else i could say to give proof.

Hope this helped, take care.

I've had pretty good results with the KG as white - even online where people have databases on their side.  It's certainly more fun than some openings. 

I thought 2...Bc5 was reasonable, the "sensible" thing to do, like what a GM would play...

But seriously not that I don't believe you, since I've heard of 2...bc5 just never studied it, but if GM's play 3...d5 giving back the material, what's the point of accepting it in the first place? It just seems to allow white to have a stronger center and an open f file where black has the crummy pawn on f4. Or is 3...d5 even considered good anymore? Was 2...Bc5 like refuted a few years ago or something? And you're right, most people SUCK at playing against the thing. In all of these novice games out of the king's gambit the black player would never consider 3...g5. It's like 1 e4 e5 2 f4... free pawn! Nf3 I'll just develop! Nc6  d4 and the pawn is probably going, or else black enters into a bad ...g5 line and white has a BEAUTIFUL position. But eventually the struggles are much more balanced and interesting. And if they know 3...g5 but no other moves, their position usually falls in flames to an even bigger kingside attack because the black kind isn't even safe. Study is the key to fighting the king's gambit, for both black and white.

I think it's a little biased towards the white side. That same position is not always claimed horrible for black in other books I saw! Can white really get the pawn back? What's the analysis on that? If he can I guess it is good for white, but then how is it a gambit? Anyways why GM's don't use the KG that much is more of a combination of giving black too many chances and the theory. But if black didn't want a wild game, maybe it would be good then, though GM's are relatively really good at everything. Kasparov, a fighting player could probably do very well against it, and karpov is a tenacious defender. Yeah he lost to spassky, but wasn't he up material or something? It seems more like a blitz game and I think we could use more wins against him for it to be clear.

I am currently forcing myself to play nothing but KG when I am white and generally welcome the chance to play against it as black.  As for the so called fischer defense ( i like calling it that too!) i can't disprove  it as a bust but i don't think it can be currently proved a bust either.

 @birdbrain..the rook sac (losing the trade, if we are speaking of the same trade at Qxh1) is something the KG player loves to have happen. Don't you agree?

I dislike King's Gambit for some reason...

i like it,because its very strong opence when you are white

Anyone who wants to play the KG can challenge me no matter the rating, but PLEASE send me a message first. No more then 10 games. That would be 5 double games or 10 singles. These would be ALL KG accepted!

“It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men”
(Savielly Tartakover)

IS WRITING IN ALL CAPS A GOOD PRACTICE

yes it is great opening!!

not sure what happened with my last few moves on the diagram above but if you click the moves it will show how i got mate.

what a thread killer

When people give you the pawn back and two center pawns you may as well play the KG against these guys. Geez, people really don't know how to handle these positions with black, because in so many amateur games I just see white having two center pawns, bishop on f4 (no longer down in material), knight on f3, and open f file. That is certainly what the KG tries to achieve but against correct play these ideals would be hard to achieve, and sometimes white's own king comes under fire because of the weakened kingside.