Loses a pawn or Sacrifice it

If chess is a vast jungle – deep, relatively unexplored and slow to yield its myriad secrets – computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. If our beloved game is not to be reduced to a glorified noughts and crosses – an arid computational desert – then, like a beautiful and intelligent woman, it must retain an element of mystery. Perhaps the most romantic of all openings is the King's Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. f4!). White sacrifices a fairly unimportant wing pawn to open lines and accelerate his development. This was not necessarily to say that it was many grandamsters' preferred method of starting the game, but at least they could understand the rationale behind it. In contrast, the King's Gambit, however, was for some other strong grandmasters totally incomprehensible: it loses a pawn and weakens the kingside, for all they could see.