King's Bishop's Gambit

well I would post some I have lost, but unfortunately I have only lost one, and that was to a 2000 so I am quite happy with that. I will find one that i enjoyed and post it with a short analysis in a few.

i play the king's gambit, but i always play 3. Nf3 in the KGA. i just find it more solid for white in an otherwise full on attacking opening. even with 3. Nf3 you have plenty to choose from and white's defense is stronger. also, i didn't like playing against 3...Qh4+ and giving up castling.


There is nothing appealing about it the way you play it.
I did not look at all at the second game- when someone plays something like 3...Nh6 then there is no chess to look at.
On the first game, your opponent did not play optimally, but you played worse. The reason? You have no idea what to do when your opponent does not allow an automatic attack. Already starting from 4.d3 your play is far from perfect. Moves like 12.c4? indicate that you are still positionally blind. Before that move, white's play was rather questionable- but after 12.c4? which weakens a lot of squares in white's camp for no apparent reason, white is just lost.
Factly, after 16.de4 you do not have an "isolated kings pawn": you have an isolated king, which will be mated soon.
It's really funny to complain on move 25 about blundering a "fork": You are already a clear piece down, and your king is in a hopeless situation.
I'm affraid the quote above says it all. To be honest i didnt even bother going all the way to move 25 let alone the 2nd game.
What you need is not trying to play like Anderssen and Kieseritzky in meaningless KGA positions, but classical systems like Italian and maybe spanish where you will learn how to place your pieces and the influence of the pawns in a given position.

Thank you for the advice, I will put what Im said into practice, and what tigergutt said, Um, on the last comment, I would rather not play those just because they don't produce the quick games i like to play, because people know how to handle them, The KG is one of those where I feel I can learn something about gaining space, tempo and a developmental lead, which is all I really want.

There is nothing appealing about it the way you play it.
I did not look at all at the second game- when someone plays something like 3...Nh6 then there is no chess to look at.
On the first game, your opponent did not play optimally, but you played worse. The reason? You have no idea what to do when your opponent does not allow an automatic attack. Already starting from 4.d3 your play is far from perfect. Moves like 12.c4? indicate that you are still positionally blind. Before that move, white's play was rather questionable- but after 12.c4? which weakens a lot of squares in white's camp for no apparent reason, white is just lost.
Factly, after 16.de4 you do not have an "isolated kings pawn": you have an isolated king, which will be mated soon.
It's really funny to complain on move 25 about blundering a "fork": You are already a clear piece down, and your king is in a hopeless situation.
Excellent post pfren!
Nothing personal against jetfighter, but he appears to be another of these Mikhail Tal types that have decided they are aggressive attacking players without even stopping to consider if they truly are that type of player.
Yes attacking, and sacrifices are really cool, and all that, but if you're not even going to try and study and understand the positional side of chess you're only studying half the game. And how far do you expect to go studying half of something?

No, you won't learn those things by studying any opening.
You will learn these, plus many more things, by studying annotated games of the great masters.
Ok, so like who, cause I want games that won't bore me to death, but that have some element of moves that help.
any names I can look up
also Tiger gut, By that I meant that Black gives up some center control if he accepts, and thus I have more space, and can develop faster, and more easily
sorry for the confusion
Yes and no. 3. Nh6 was a pretty bad move though. If my oppoent plays 1 h4,followed by 2 Rh3, I kinda know what the game is gonna be like.
There's a difference between something unorthodox and something that is just plain wrong.

i never said it wasnt a bad move, but one bad move does not take away from the value of a game. Even if you are right and this game in question isnt good, you cant tell on the third move what the rest of the game will contain
I always find it odd when I read comments from chess players of my skill level lecturing masters on this game.
Neither you nor I have any idea what an IM can tell from the third move of a game.

i never said it wasnt a bad move, but one bad move does not take away from the value of a game. Even if you are right and this game in question isnt good, you cant tell on the third move what the rest of the game will contain
Actually if your opponent is placing his knight on the rim on the third move, it can tell you alot about that player. Unless if course youre playing Kasaprov and hes taking it easy on you.
Hi all, I want to know What is your opinion of this Opening, and How I can better use it, Because I exclusively use this against the KGA and I use again almost Exclusively (now) against the Open game use the KG. I just hope some people will give some advice.
Thank you and have a nice day