Black to play and win! (1644 ChessTempo)
Black to play and win! (1644 ChessTempo)
Black to play and win! (1644 ChessTempo)
If you play 1... e5, you've run into the King's Gambit at some point. And if you're anything like me, the positions make absolutely no sense once you get about 5 moves in. So let's talk about it. What defense do you play against the King's Gambit? What are the main ideas for black? How do you survive when White is throwing everything they have at you? What resources have you used to learn more about the black side of this opening?
I guess the three biggest websites for puzzles are chess.com, lichess, and chesstempo. Which do you prefer? For me overall, it's chesstempo > lichess > chess.com, though I would say chess.com's puzzle quality is a little better than lichess. Chesstempo lets me do an unlimited number of high-quality puzzles, Lichess lets me do an unlimited number of questionable quality puzzles, and chess.com limits me to 5 puzzles a day. My biggest issue with Lichess is that the puzzles are taken from random people's games, so I'll get some absolutely ridiculous position that you could never reach if you weren't trying to reach it, and then the answer will be a quiet move that doesn't seem to do anything but if the opponent doesn't find the only defending move, it's mate in 13.