Let's play the King's Gambit.
Let's learn the King's Gambit! On move 2 we'll shoot ourselves in the foot by giving away a pawn and weakening our king - but if Black doesn't know all the tricks and traps it will be us who is victorious (and suffering from an injured foot). We begin with pawn to e4.
Let's continue with the King's Gambit.
Now here comes the gambit. We're going to give away our f-pawn. Pawn to f4.
What's the best move?
They took our gambit! Now, before we can do anything else, we need to protect against Black's very annoying threat of queen to h4. We can defend against it with knight to f3.
What's the best move?
That's a nice move by Black, defending the f4 pawn and also threatening to move their pawn to g5 and kick out our knight. I don't like them having such a good pawn. Let's attack it right away and say "hey, make a decision". Pawn to h4.
Black chose to defend their pawn - and they made the wrong choice! Now we have the beautiful sacrifice: knight to g5.
There is a beautiful diagonal just calling our queen's name! Queen to h5 check.
Black is in for a rough time. Queen takes g5 check.
King goes back to e8? Queen should go back to h5.
And now we have the always nice queen to e5 check, forking the king and rook.
We could just straight up win the rook, but even better is bishop to c4, checking the king once again.
You probably have a forced checkmate here. At minimum you end up gobbling a few pieces and leaving their king stranded in the center of the board. Game is as good as over.
This is a nice try by Black but its not enough. Pawn to e5 and they are still miserable.
Um, ok? Queen takes bishop on g7.
You definitely got it from here.
That's a free queen! Queen takes d8.
Job well done.
OK well we should probably move the knight. Knight to e5. This puts a double attack on the g4 pawn.
This is a weak defense from Black. Sure, they saved their g4 pawn, but now we have bishop to c4 - and who will defend their f7 pawn?
Lets play pawn to d4, owning the center and threatening the f4 pawn with our bishop.
Very common response from Black, trying to kick out our knight. We'll oblige. Knight to d3 attacking the f4 pawn.
Black is threatening our pawn on d4. We can defend it while winning back a pawn in one move. Can you find it? Hint: knight takes f4, opening up our queen.
We're doing great here! The material is equal but the computer loves our position.
Instead of immediately defending their f-pawn, Black is taking their time and protecting the e5 square so our knight can't hop to it in the future. In this position we should take the center with pawn to d4.
Mistake from black! They totally forgot about their hanging pawn. Let's take with bishop f4.
Now Black is sending their only developed piece out to die! Obviously we take back, and it's best to take back with the queen. Queen to f3.
Beautiful! We are ahead in development and have the entire center.