Tree path 9 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: Traditional Variation › King's Gambit Accepted: Philidor Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: Greco Gambit
C38

King's Gambit Accepted: Greco Gambit

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Overview

King's Gambit Accepted: Greco Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C38, 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.

The line arises from 19 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 h6 6. d4 d6 7. Nc3 c6 8. hxg5 hxg5 9. Rxh8 Bxh8 10. Ne5.

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

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ECO code
C38
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
19
Parent
King's Gambit Accepted: Philidor Gambit

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