King's Gambit Accepted
Black takes on f4. White then chooses a bishop, a knight, or an immediate king's pawn push to recover the pawn or to attack before Black consolidates. The named gambits in this tree (Muzio, Kieseritzky, Allgaier, and others) are those choices.
Play the main line
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King's Gambit Accepted
Play the next move in the line.
- e4
- e5
- f4
- exf4
Move by move
- White pawn moves from e2 to e4.
- Black pawn moves from e7 to e5.
- White pawn moves from f2 to f4.
- Black pawn captures on f4.
Variations
Basman Gambit1 lines · C33Bishop's Gambit28 lines · C33Breyer Gambit1 lines · C33Carrera Gambit1 lines · C33Dodo Variation1 lines · C33Eisenberg Variation1 lines · C33Gaga Gambit1 lines · C33Lopez-Gianutio Countergambit1 lines · C33Mason-Keres Gambit1 lines · C33Orsini Gambit1 lines · C33Paris Gambit1 lines · C33Schurig Gambit2 lines · C33Stamma Gambit1 lines · C33Tartakower Gambit2 lines · C33Tumbleweed1 lines · C33Villemson Gambit1 lines · C33Becker Defense1 lines · C34Bonsch-Osmolovsky Variation1 lines · C34Fischer Defense3 lines · C34Gianutio Countergambit1 lines · C34Greco Gambit2 lines · C34 to C38King's Knight's Gambit4 lines · C34 to C39MacLeod Defense1 lines · C34Schallopp Defense2 lines · C34Wagenbach Defense1 lines · C34Cunningham Defense4 lines · C35Abbazia Defense2 lines · C36Modern Defense2 lines · C36Australian Gambit1 lines · C37Blachly Gambit1 lines · C37Double Muzio Gambit5 lines · C37Ghulam-Kassim Gambit2 lines · C37Kotov Gambit1 lines · C37Lolli Gambit2 lines · C37McDonnell Gambit1 lines · C37Middleton Countergambit1 lines · C37Muzio Gambit Accepted1 lines · C37Muzio Gambit5 lines · C37Quaade Gambit1 lines · C37Rosentreter Gambit4 lines · C37Salvio Gambit6 lines · C37Silberschmidt Gambit1 lines · C37Sörensen Gambit1 lines · C37Hanstein Gambit1 lines · C38Mayet Gambit1 lines · C38Philidor Gambit2 lines · C38Traditional Variation1 lines · C38Allgaier Gambit3 lines · C39Allgaier5 lines · C39Kieseritzky Gambit17 lines · C39Kieseritzky4 lines · C39
Named gambits and traps
136 lines in this family have "gambit" or "trap" in the name. The list shows 24.
- King's Gambit Accepted: Basman Gambit (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Anderssen Defense (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Anderssen Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bledow Countergambit (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bledow Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Boden Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Defense (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Boren-Svenonius Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bryan Countergambit (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Chigorin's Attack (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Classical Defense (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Classical Defense, Cozio Attack (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Cozio Defense (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Cozio Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, First Jaenisch Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Fraser Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Gianutio Gambit (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Greco Variation (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Grimm Attack (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Kieseritzky Gambit (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Lopez Defense (C33)
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Lopez Variation (C33)
Puzzles from this opening
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Find the move.