Queen s' Gambit vs Kings Gambit?
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Queen's Gambit. King's Gambit gives up a pawn! I like pawns.
Aug 6, 2015
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#3
These are both good ideas, but it's a matter of taste which one you play and it pretty much depends what kind of middlegame you're looking for.
Queens gambit is more sound, and yeah...
Aug 7, 2015
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#5
Queen's gambit is incredibly sound and still used in modern chess.
King's gambit is somewhat dubious and not terribly popular.
Though the KG tends to lead to very fun games, so if you measure using that ruler, well....
Aug 7, 2015
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#6
The Queen's Gambit is by far, as in light years, more sound than the King's Gambit.
Which do I "favor"? Set me up the King's Gambit all day, every day, and twice on Sunday, and I'll take Black every time and be a Grandmaster by next week!
I have respect for anyone who plays 2.f4. It makes a statement about yourself as well as the game; something like "I'd rather take my chances with unsound, romantic sacrificial play and maybe lose in the first 15 moves having dropped both rooks, than risk drawing some wood-pushing King and pawn endgame after 80 moves." Punk rock.
Aug 7, 2015
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#8
ThrillerFan wrote:
The Queen's Gambit is by far, as in light years, more sound than the King's Gambit.
Which do I "favor"? Set me up the King's Gambit all day, every day, and twice on Sunday, and I'll take Black every time and be a Grandmaster by next week!
LOLZ. Your infering that the King's gambit is that crappy you could win even time so your saying if you sat down to play say the likes of Short or even Carlsen have played the King's Gambit), you would win simply because they did play said gambit? ...WOW, it must be awesome to be you!
Chess openings are only as good as the person using them, against who the opening is being used against and under what situation. Chess is not all about theory, there is some playing involved...
Kings gambit seems less popular now. However,queen is used more often.
I prefer kings. Its not about what is better. Its about what are you. A swashbuckler (king's gambit) or a bureaucrat * (queens gambit)
* cog in the machine.
If you try the King's against someone who knows all the theory you'll probably lose. Playing against it is very easy and black usually gets a good endgame if he plays the more sound defenses.
Well the only reason the Kings Gambit fell out of popular play is the Fischer line and even against that line you can generate good results with very good play though it does make for a tough game but many people even around 2k just don't expect to see it and don't know the Fischer line although you'd be lucky for a 2000 player not to know the line but it's a possibility and above that everyone is pretty much guaranteed to know the Fischer defense and Nakamura a super gm plays the Kings Gambit on occasion actually
Jan 23, 2016
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#13
I played the Fischer line in the mid-80s in a postal chess game. I got killed so fast, it wasn't funny.
Hadron wrote:
ThrillerFan wrote:
The Queen's Gambit is by far, as in light years, more sound than the King's Gambit.
Which do I "favor"? Set me up the King's Gambit all day, every day, and twice on Sunday, and I'll take Black every time and be a Grandmaster by next week!
LOLZ. Your infering that the King's gambit is that crappy you could win even time so your saying if you sat down to play say the likes of Short or even Carlsen have played the King's Gambit), you would win simply because they did play said gambit? ...WOW, it must be awesome to be you!
Chess openings are only as good as the person using them, against who the opening is being used against and under what situation. Chess is not all about theory, there is some playing involved...
Obviously it depends on what level you're playing but if we're talking about equal'ish opposition then what Thrillerfan wrote is in fact stastically correct.
Hello. Which of these two gambits do you favor the most?