king's gambit

Watch your g-file a little more, I saw some pretty amazing clever possible attacks from that file, great game though! :)

I've been a King's Gambit player for some 4 years now, and it never gave me any reason to regret playing it. It's only too good that they usually consider it to be a bad choice of opening and "refuted", because then the surprise factor is added to the natural attack of the opening.

I think the best way for you to improve your King's gambit play should be to analyse games by masters such as Morphy, Anderssen, Chigorin...

It should be interesting to note that although  the KG is barely used in top class tornaments nowdays, it was played twice this year by GMs. And one of them was Magnus Carlsen itself, who played it for the 1st time to defeat Wang Yue, by no means a weak opponent.

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6434

The other was Nigel Short, who drew playing it against young GM Anish Giri.

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6332

Hope you keep playing the King's Gambit, best opening ever. And post us some games you enjoyed playing.

thanks beckerqueiroz :)

Maybe this is an inappropriate plug, but if some of the other readers in this thread want to follow up on your advice, I posted a PGN file in Resources that has 935 games from 25 chess wizards I selected, with an emphasis on players from the 1800s and early 1900s (there are a handful of recent and current players too).  On this page you'll find a summary of the included games and a download link.

I started playing the King's Gambit in my White chess.com games a couple months ago.  Lots to learn yet, but a decent start-- seven wins and two losses so far with the KG, and 1 current game.  In the 6 months since I've joined chess.com I've played in a Bird's Opening tournament and a Vienna Gambit tournament (still going in round 2), and between those openings and playing the King's Gambit I'm finally starting to become comfortable with advancing my f-pawn as White.  I think this is also helping me some against the Sicilian, as I no longer hesitate to shove the pawn to f4 as part of my development.

Great attack!

it wasn't that great...i did mistakes....my oponent did mistakes...it's just a begginer's KG game.

Mistakes happen, that's how you get better. 

Use the game explorer here to play through KG games and get some new ideas. 

I think Kasparov said that there is no game without mistakes. 

bravo mai

cam slabut,putea sa ia pionul la d3,tu ce faceai?PIERDEAI CALUL

la ce mutare?

i've been trying out the king's gambit recently as well. here are a couple very pretty games:

Nice example games by Morphy!  It's amazing how fast things can fall apart for Black if they make the wrong move against the King's Gambit.

I wonder if I could have lasted twenty moves against Morphy! Very nice.