King’s Gambit: Worth it or not?
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dhruv_jinu
11 days ago
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#1
Hey, is King’s Gambit a good gambit or not to play in a tournament?
10 days ago
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#2
Yes. You will have a lot of fun and learn a lot. Many great players started out with it.
10 days ago
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#3
It all depends on what you are looking for. John Shaw's book is a "must" to play the KG at all well today. It takes about a week to choose lines and assimilate the ideas. What you get from the KG is absolutely no guarantees but some delightfully bamboozled opponents sometimes and always a game of speculative chances. Your call.
RalphHayward έγραψε:
It all depends on what you are looking for. John Shaw's book is a "must" to play the KG at all well today. It takes about a week to choose lines and assimilate the ideas. What you get from the KG is absolutely no guarantees but some delightfully bamboozled opponents sometimes and always a game of speculative chances. Your call.
The book is too detailed and complicated (biased too, but this isn't such a bad thing) to be useful to class players.
Same goes for Nepo's excellent course "Long Live the King's Gambit" on Chessable.
6 days ago
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@pfren I agree in general with yours at #4. Shaw is both immensely detailed and offers a distinctive lens. But what else that's comprehensive and roughly accurate for modern theory is there? Not much that I have found. "Kalinichenko" perhaps as an anthology of games. I come from having been a beginner (grade c800 aged 12) when I happened upon "Korchnoi and Kak" and "Glazkov and Estrin" on the King's Gambit. Both books were well beyond my level of competence or understanding (for the onlooker, both are now utterly superseded and really only of historical interest), but I surfed them and gained some general ideas from them and fell in love. So I suggested the modern equivalent.
