Several refer to Evans Gambit. How often does that happen? 10% maybe. Doesn't Black have to go Bc5 on his third move? So completely out of KG via the big 3 by White; e4, Nf3, Bc4.
Though I like the Evans because it can lead to Greek Gift B Sac, which doesn't pop up often.
"Several refer to Evans Gambit. How often does that happen? 10% maybe."
No, only 2%.
"Doesn't Black have to go Bc5 on his third move?"
No: 3...Nf6, 3...Be7, 3...d6 also 2...Nf6, 2...d6, 2...d5 or 1...c5, 1...e6, 1...c6, 1...d5, 1...d6, 1...g6, 1...Nf6
"So completely out of KG via the big 3 by White; e4, Nf3, Bc4.
Though I like the Evans because it can lead to Greek Gift B Sac, which doesn't pop up often."
No Evans Gambit does not lead to Greek gift sacrifice.
Anyway, both King's Indian Attack or King's Gambit are better than the 1 e3, 2 Qh5 that you play.
Since you play Pirc Defence 1 e4 d6 with black, it makes sense to play King's Indian with black 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 and then King's Indian Attack 1 Nf3, 2 g3 3 Bg2 4 o-o 5 d3 with white.
Will consider. But EG can indeed lead to Greek Gift and it's not too far fetched. 2% seems about right though, instead of 10%.
You're not going to improve if you're just trying to repeat the same brilliant win every time. Might as well go for scholar's mate every game then.
That is exactly what he does now
Well, look at the game he played right before that one...
In a way Davy just tried to reproduce here, which diminishes the claim that going for it is a (inherent ) component of his playstyle
By the way, you can play KIA as a system, but I know lots of ways to deviate. Mostly I play with Qe2, but there also ideas in the "classical" KIA. Here is a game of mine against a FM, it ended with a draw. But the opening was close to winning, wasn't it?
@Sarg0n This position is won indeed. The masters database here on lichess gives two games with exactly the same moves and white winning.
@DavyKOTWF if you like the Greek gift sacrifice so much, maybe you should play the Colle opening, where it is a recurring theme.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1316498http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1036727The Colle opening is somewhat less known and underestimated, although Magnus Carlsen has played it in his match for the World Championship with Sergej Karjakin.
Actually I learned this variation as Black. A good player used it and I had a deep think. I went for ...Bf5 or ...Bg4 instead of 11. ... c4 and escaped with a draw. Then I had a new weapon with White! :D
11...cxd4 looks strong for black.
