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King's Bishop Gambit???

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TonightOnly

"Wouldn't the move order you listed make it a variation of the King's Gambit?"

 

It is true that openings can transpose, but like I explained before, it is not a line of any gambit because you did not sacrifice the pawn. All you did was offer a pawn trade in the bishop's opening. Gambits can't really transpose all that much, since they are generally offered within the first few moves. 


TonightOnly

"I wasn't trying to invent a new opening, I just didn't know what to call it."

 

Hmmm...allright maaaybe I'll forgive you. 


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1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. d3 Bc5 4. f4?! Bxg1!? 5. Rxg1 Qh4+
TeacherOfPain

I don't know anything about a King's Bishop Gambit, but the Kings Gambit is a highly theoretical opening that requires much attention to detail. 

It is one of those openings that if you are not prepared with you will get crushed in, that is just the nature of it. Honeslty though I was never a Kings Gambit player, it just seemed like a opening that had a lot of theory and not enough positive outcomes for(or in other words the chances seemed more diminished than increased)

I think you can get away with playing the Kings Gambit on your level and probably unto the the expert or Master's level however after that you won't get anything more than a draw I would say. The reason being is due to the fact that the King's Gambit has been broken down and analyzed by various GM's and Masters and due to this people don't find it as effective as it used to be, like in the Romantic Era of chess. 

But for the OP it seems like you have some sort of variation of the Kings Gambit, I wouldn't neccessarily say this is new, but you definitley played it for a win, so that is very nice! 

Regardless Gg and hopefully this was informative for you...