crazy king!

i dont think i played well but the game was to crazy to not post

Another wild and crazy King's Gambit game! Way to survive and thrive Tommy! Good game. 

Great fun!

Ke2 comes way too late, but you managed to salvage the game

 5.Ke2 is a perfectly good move and suggested to me by an IM. i did mistakes in this game but 5.Ke2 was not one of them. mistakes happend later

thanks for the comments

nice to see you using the crazy king variation :-)

and congrats on winning!

i think on move 10 directly taking the bishop on h4 might not be right! the bishop is badly placed, and the pawn on d5 is crucial. so i would consider Bb5+ Nbd7 c4 (defending that d5 pawn, and still threatening Nxh4); or 10.Nc3, defending the pawn.

that makes sence. during the game i actually considered 10.Bb5+ Nbd7 11.c4 but i wasnt able to calculate the consequences of 11...Rb8 pinning my bishop to the king so i "played safe" and grabbed the extra officer instead. i also considered Nc3 but i was afraid it blocked to many escaperoutes for my king, but it was probably alot safer than my nervewrecking kingmarch from b3 to g2

yeah, Rb8 might well cost you something, but you can then maybe take on h4. it should come out well for you somehow. :-)

 Cool.

Watching your game unfold reminded me of what I read last night in The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess by Andrew Soltis. What I read was: “The king makes his neighborhood vulnerable.”  Soltis wrote that sounds obvious today, but Evgeny Znosko-Borodvsky was contradicting Steintz when he wrote in The Middle Game in Chess: “Wherever the king is placed, the position in his vicinity becomes automatically weaker, for his presence attracts enemy attacks.” 

Of course, Soltis goes into more comment about all of this and even gives a game played by Steintiz - Theigorin in the World Championship in 1892 as an example.  

I enjoy watching your game and thinking about what I read last night. 

glad you liked it:) mr pruess covers the line in one of the "principles of kings gambit" videos. you have to be premim member to see it but its good

It was like watching someone perform a self-enema with a plumber's snake, then hand it across the table so the other guy could do it too. A keeper. Definitely a keeper.