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ANNOTATED GAME
The Kings Gambit is always fun
ulrich321 (1806) vs. walfrid1888 (1823)
Annotated by: ulrich321 (1805)
Chess opening: Bird (A02), From gambit
ulrich321 (1806) vs. walfrid1888 (1823)
Annotated by: ulrich321 (1805)
Chess opening: Bird (A02), From gambit
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1. f4 |
I wanted to show how the kings gambit provides lots of tactical play for both sides. If you are interested in perfect chess, then this is probably not for you, as this game has mistakes from both sides and the kings gambit is probably not safest opening for white either. I do not normally play Birds opening, this game game is part of a mini tournament that has the opening moves f4 e5 (Froms Gambit). | ||||
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1... e5 2. e4 |
Not often one can transpose into a kings gambit ! | ||||
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2... exf4 |
Kings Gambit, my favourite playing white or black. | ||||
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3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 |
One of the main ideas of the kings gambit is to provide good central pawns for white. | ||||
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4... Qf6 |
Interesting move, my first thought was that surely bringing out the queen here would let me gain more useful tempi, but in hindsight I cannot really see anything really wrong with this move. | ||||
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5. e5 |
This move was made almost by instinct, there just something about a humble pawn attacking the queen. | ||||
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5... Qg6 6. Kf2 |
Ok, I admit this probably not the best move, there were two reasons for it. Firstly I wanted to avoid a potential pin happening for my knight going to c3, secondly I wanted to avoid the queen check on e4. | ||||
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6... Qf5 |
I was not sure what my opponent was trying to achieve here, I saw it as a wasted tempo, which in the kings gambit is the last thing one should be doing. | ||||
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7. Bd3 Qg4 8. Re1 |
I am almost doing castling in slow motion here. | ||||
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8... Be7 9. Kg1 |
Forced by a B h4 | ||||
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9... Bb4 |
Another wasted tempo by black, I also was not sure about the intent of this move. | ||||
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10. c3 Be7 11. Re4 |
A computer will show that this move is not a good move. The best move would have been h3 and the queen must move to e6, if she moves to g6, then she will end up getting trapped. My reasoning behind this move was to that if black played g5, then there would not be many squares for the black queen to move to leading to a fork or queen trap. | ||||
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11... g5 12. h3 Qe6 13. c4 |
My intention is obvious. | ||||
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13... Qh6 |
There was always one annoying square the the black queen could escape to. | ||||
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14. Nc3 f5 15. exf6 e.p. |
Should not have done this, this gives black more space and allow free development of a piece, R e1 is better. | ||||
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15... Nxf6 16. Re2 Qg7 |
Yet another Queen move, clearly planning a pawn storm on my king. | ||||
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17. a3 |
A passive move, If one plays the Kings gambit one can hardly afford to play passively. I played it because I did not like Nb4, I wanted to keep my light squared bishop for action on the black king side. | ||||
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17... h5 |
Time wise the game was relatively quick, the most time spent thinking was on this move. White can now no longer afford any passive move anymore, Black has a pawn phalanx marching straight toward the king, backed by a queen and a rook. White on the other hand has a rook targeting the pinned bishop, with good central pawns. My initial thought was that Black has the better attack and I should defend, but this being a kings gambit game and because I was a pawn down I decided to throw caution in to the wind. | ||||
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18. d5 g4 19. Nh4 |
The only move, the knight on f5 will threaten the queen and the pinned bishop. | ||||
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19... f3 |
Not a good idea for white to take this pawn ;) | ||||
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