Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.analysis Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: King's Gambit Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <5cu2l9$9um$2@kronos.crosslink.net> <19970201021400.VAA18913@ladder01.news.aol.com> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 09:40:01 GMT In article <19970201021400.VAA18913@ladder01.news.aol.com> derrick915@aol.com (Derrick915) writes: >I need some help on winning with this opening. >I can never win a pawn back or anything. Are there any >variations to the gambit?? Are there ever. The King's Gambit is a bit of an ancient woodland. Folk who have lived there for years can make a good living out of it, but the casual passer-by might find it inhospitable and incomprehensible by turns. Positionally it is well-founded, decoying the Black e-Pawn and (half-)opening the f-file, but the complications can be immense and the number and variety of viable Black defences is large. An introduction to the gambit and it's variations is to be found at http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/Openings/kg_ideas.html If you want to warm up on the variations without lashing out on a book, you can try http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/Openings/kg_vars.html HTH -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* Exeter Chess Coaching Page etc.: || \_/| = DrDave on BICS http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV "Contribute!" -- Doug Attig From info!dregis Fri Feb 7 10:52:36 GMT 1997 Article: 5378 of rec.games.chess.analysis