Tree path 8 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: Kieseritzky Gambit › Rosenthal Defense
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Rosenthal Defense
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Rosenthal Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C39, 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 begins with 10 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Qe7 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky, Salvio Defense, Cozio Variation.
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- ECO code
- C39
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 10
- Direct variations
- 1
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