Is the King's Gambit dying out?

@Professor74 said in #1:
> Reviewing my database since August 2019, I found the King's Gambit was played in a little over five hundred games. That equates, if I'm not mistaken, to an average of ten games per month. Do you think the King's Gambit is dying out?

Are games played on the Internet included in these five hundred games?

@Moro2000 said in #21:
> Are games played on the Internet included in these five hundred games?

Thank you for that question. I didn't include the games played in online tournaments. I was very careful when filtering the games, so only included those games played in OTB tournaments. Counting the online games in the same period there would be more than eight hundred games playing the King's Gambit.

Does anyone else remember a remarkable article on chessbase.com back in 2012 which announced that the King's Gambit had been refuted by machines?

en.chessbase.com/post/rajlich-busting-the-king-s-gambit-this-time-for-sure

"1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4. We now know the exact outcome of this position, assuming perfect play, of course. I know your next question, so I am going to pre-empt it: there is only one move that draws for White, and that is, somewhat surprisingly, 3.Be2. Every other move loses by force."

I'm sorry to say I was impressed and fell for it , enthusiastically starting a discussion topic about it on another site:
www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=16689

@Brian-E said in #23:
> Does anyone else remember a remarkable article on chessbase.com back in 2012 which announced that the King's Gambit had been refuted by machines?
>
> en.chessbase.com/post/rajlich-busting-the-king-s-gambit-this-time-for-sure

Thank you for joining the discussion! Chessbase clarified a week later it was an April Fools' joke. Here it goes:

The ChessBase April Fools revisited
en.chessbase.com/post/the-chebase-april-fools-revisited

They already said it was dying out when I frequently played it at our chess club in the 1980s.

It always leads to mad games, where anything can happen. (well at my level anyhow) It’s probably dying out because it’s so unpredictable, it’s not really serious chess is it ? It’s something you play for fun to catch a new opponent off guard . I maybe talking rubbish but that’s my 10 pence worth xxx

As white, I play it very often, but only occasionally against 2000s rated.