Tree path 7 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted › Bishop's Gambit › Cozio Defense › King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation › King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Defense
C33

King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Defense

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Overview

King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C33, Open Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.

The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.

It is reached after 8 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6.

The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
C33
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
8
Parent
King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation

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