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The King's Gambit remains a rather dangerous opening weapon, even if it doesn't get a lot of use by top players. The following wiki gives an extensive overview, and sometimes it goes fairly deep into the move count with its coverage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Gambit
Here's a link to a thread about the Bird's Opening (the KG can be reached vis 1.f4 e5 2.e4 from it):
https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...dable+armament
Here's a short King's Gambit Declined game (no pun intended), with analysis borrowed from ECO, 5th edition. White missed a chance to seize a big advantage fairly early on, and then the players soon after that agreed to a draw in a rather murky position - not an all too common example of why there have been a high percentage of draws in elite chess for some time, perhaps(?):
[Event "Candidates match"]
[Site "London, England"]
[Date "1991"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Short, Nigel"]
[Black "Speelman, Jonathan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bc4 c6 6.d3 {6.fxe5 is more normal.} b5 {6...0-0 7.fxe5 dxe5 leads to a line of 6.fxe5 where White has committed a move to playing d2-d3 a bit early. After 8.Qe2 [better is 8.Bg5 though 8...Be6 eventually leads to equality in ECO] 8...b5 9.Bb3 Bg4 10.Be3 [with Black already given time to castle, Bxf7+ is now unplayable for White - K.P.] 10... Nbd7 11.0-0 Qb6! Black had a slight edge in Mirumian-Blatny, 1997.} 7.Bb3 Qe7 8.Qe2 Nbd7 9.Rf1 Bb4 {ECO suggests 9...Bb6!? intending ...Nc5 with an unclear position.} 10.fxe5 dxe5 11.g4 {Dubious. Better is 11.Qf2 0-0 [11...Nc5 12.Qg3 also gives White a big edge.] 12.Nh4 with a large advantage for White.} Nc5 12.g5 Nfd7 13.Bd2 a5 14.Nh4 Nxb3 {This, the final position, is rated as unclear by ECO.} 1/2-1/2
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