There is a chapter on the King's Gambit in Starting Out: Open Games by GM Glenn Flear (2010).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626232452/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen134.pdf
It could also help you to explore some other possibilities.
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I don't really do too well with it. I'd personally learn a pet defense to the KG and stick with it. I wouldn't adopt it as a main weapon as white but rather 1.e4,e5 2.f4?! is a surprise weapon. Articles such as, "From the Sickbed of the King's Gambit" to, "A Bust to the King's Gambit" aren't simply written because an opening is unanimously good keep in mind. No one ever called into question the Giuoco Piano or Ruy Lopez's soundness.
Modern chess is strategically sophisticated where long term advantages such as space, piece differences (knight vs. bishop, etc.) and such are valued and players seek positional rather than tactical benefits from an opening.
If both sides play perfectly then equality is maintained, but if one side makes a mistake then the equilibrium is disturbed, and it is here when one should think about embarking on an attack. Look at your advantages (active pieces, coordination, color complex control and control over weak squares, eternal knight, etc.) and look at your opponent's disadvantages (weak pawns on open files, bad bishop, weak king, hanging pawns so c3+d4 with no e or b pawn, etc.) then utilize both in formulating your attacking plan. Things such as center type however complicate the process and getting the hang of it is simply the path to mastery.
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You, Sir? Mam? Have hit on EXACTLY what has gotten me hooked on chess to the tune of its what I do with pretty much all of my spare time now... Its a ROMANTIC game. I play, for example, in the Slow Live Chess Association (they are just a Slow Chess group here at chess.com - search for them if you are interested - a bit odd of a system of pairing but fair and efficient). Anyway, I don't just get up at midnight to play a 1500 rated guy in Serbia in a 90/30, I sit... in the dark, alone, with a chess board in front of me, a glass of iced tea, maybe have a window open so I can feel the night air.... etc. You get the drift. Even if I lose playing a higher rated player who I have no hope of beating, I learn something. And then the benefit of electronic chess here is that after you can go back over the game and find out what went right. That maneuver in the beginning? Go back and check it out again. Does it still look good? etc.
Chess is just romantic like that. It always has been for me. Its why I insist on a decent chess set to play on. I have a beautiful wooden one that didn't set me back too badly and I love it.
Anyway, I play because of these beautiful games. Sometimes my opponent gives me a nice mate instead of piece grab to the end tactical game followed by the pawn rush. And those games are beautiful.
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