Around 1700 rating, I face a lot of king’s gambit opening (1.e4 e5 2.f4). I haven’t set time to study this opening, so when I face it, I just wing it, without really understand its goal and so I found myself many times with a lack of space and underdeveloped, struggling to find counterplay.
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Master’s games top response to 3.Nf3 from chess.com
and from Wikipedia: Joe Gallagher writes that 3.Nf3 Nc6 “has never really caught on, probably because it does nothing to address Black’s immediate problems.”
Points to take 1. Better understanding and a new response to king’s gambit is required. (This post helped me with that) 2. Make exchanges wisely, piece activity and positional aspects are sometimes more important then winning an exchange.
