Tree path 7 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted › King's Knight's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit
C37

King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit

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Overview

King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C37, 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.

Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. d4, after 9 plies of opening development.

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

The line splits into 2 documented sub-systems: King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit, King's Gambit Accepted: Kotov Gambit.

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ECO code
C37
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
9
Parent
King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit
Direct variations
2

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Variations (2)