Queen's gambit is not really a gambit, while in king's gambit u can be a pawn down for nothing.
Sorry not nothing, for having unsafe king having played f pawn so early :p
KG is more fun, but QG is safer.
What's better, the Queen's Gambit or the King's Gambit?
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Nov 27, 2015
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First, let me preface this with a the fact that I don't do very much opening study. That said, they are two completely different openings. The Queen's Gambit isn't even a true gambit as in most lines, the gambit pawn easily recovered and holding on to it can cause black problems.
If you look at an opening database, you will see that White loses more often historically against the King's Gambit: White 40% wins, 19% draw with 41% Black wins. (opening explorer here, not counting possible transpositions).
Queen's Gambit: 40% White wins, 38% draws, 22% Black wins.
Queens gambit, isn't a gambit in the purest use of the term. Black can NOT hold onto the pawn without getting crushed. That said, it's 101% sound. The Kings Gambit on the other hand is dubious! Black has way too many good defenses and I READ recently that they used the best chess engines to analyze the Kings gambit and found it is deeply flawed. - TRUE we don't play like computers but, it has been suspected as unsound for most of the 20tg century and fell out of favor after the romantic period. It is largely looked down upon. However, it is very complicated and is fine in the hands of a superior player.
Just my $.02
Obviously the Queen's Gambit. Both are incomparable though, the QG isn't even a gambit.
I'm partial to the QG. I love the closed positions that result, and they often hold a lot more tactics than they look like they do.
I love the KG
I find you generally get this position when trying to play the KG:
Nov 27, 2015
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First things first: The Queen's Gambit can be played as a "Real gambit" if White wants. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 is a very popular way to do that.
Second of all, the Queen's Gambit is objectively better than the King's Gambit. But the King's Gambit is romantic and interesting.
It might be worth noting that in comparing these two openings we can see that black should do well to accept the pawn in the King's gambit, whereas in the Q gambit the declined version is probably better for black than the Q gambit accepted.
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I personally like the king gambit. I demolish my opponents with that
Queen's gambit is definately preferred by chess engines, and I like to play it myself. King's gambit to me just sort of exposes your king.
King's Gambit? Terrible!
Attack genius Tal hardly ever played the KG
I recently got into a large argument with one of my chess buddies about the advantages of the two gambits. I personally am partial to the king's gambit, but I conceded that the queen's gambit has some advantages. Outside opinions?