My Middle and Endgame Seems to Fail.

I just started playing again after a long absence from the game, all the areas of my game seem to struggle, but my middle and end are awful. Can someone analyze this and put into plain terms what I did wrong and why.

Cheers.

didnt look too much..but i did see move 27 you had that nice discovered check ready and you could have played nc7 and won his queen.

Your loosing in the opening.  The title suggest you had a good opening and failed in the middle game.  I play the King's Gambit a lot and your lines were goofy.  In the Kings Gambit the earlier you can get Bc4 in the better.  One of the best strategies in defeating the Kings Gambit is taking away the ability of white to play Bc4 so if your oponent does nothing to prevent Bc4 play it as soon as you can.  In the middle game you could have won his queen with  a discovered check but you missed it.  The ending you were allready lost so there is no reason to think you played a bad end game when there was nothing but hope to live for.

I know that feeling, Q. I recently let a winning position slip away from me. One mistake led to another, and another, and then I drew a game which I should have won (but actually lost, though neither of us saw it at the time).

After 19.Qg4, Black is clearly in the lead. While the material advantage is only one point, Black has an extra minor piece for that pawn, no structural weaknesses and all the momentum against White's doubled pawns and exposed king.

So what happened?

My thought was perhaps playing Nf3 was a more creative line in the Kings Gambit, opening a more kingside based attack.

The King's Gambit... *sigh* I used to love it. Everything was fine, until I met the Falkbeer.

Now I love the King's Gambit when playing as Black.

 I disagree.  Kings Gambit is easy to learn and an excellent opening to start with.  It's a great opening for learning how to play attacking positions with unbalanced material. 

 Opposite of my last post.  Don't get to creative, heck don't evevn learn different lines.  In the Kings Gambit you need to know 1.e4 e5 2.f4 (anymove for black) 3. Nf3.  That's all you need to memorize in terms of move order at this point.

Your Goal is to get into a position that looks something like this.  Your opponent is going to try to stop you from reaching this position.  Focus on getting to this position and once you feel you have gotten good enough playing from the above position then you can explore other ideas.

just as an example.  If the opposing player rushes his king side pawns at me I even gambit my F3 knight away.  I want my rook and bishop and possibly queen focussing on that f7 square

Here is a game I played that shows what happens when the KG works well. I had an analysis but I deleted it by accident. He made some major blunders but I was fairly thrilled with my positional play and tactics.

Sorry, I disagree. There are soo many ways to screw everything up playing as white. Some of the ones I discovered by myself after the 1.e4 e5 2.f4 are:

• The Falkbeer countergambit: 2... d5
• 2...exf4 3.Nf3 d5
• 2...exf4 3.d4 Qh4+

And so on...

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 I doubt an 800 player is going to run into the falkbeer countergambit much.  If his goal is to improve than the Kings Gambit is a great opening to learn to play from.  Regardless of weather he looses 50% or more of his games with it from the start.  If he is playing against players who know the FCG than he is playing out of his league.  IF you want to have fun and improve at the same time the KG is one of the best openings to start from.  I do however think that the OP should stick to the main line KG rather than the Ng5 lines.

You'd be surprised of the openings people throw at you when you're below the 1200, but yes, playing the KG against somebody who knows the Falk is as bad as playing the Hammerschlag.