Tree path 10 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 › Berlin Defense › King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Anderssen Defense › King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky, Rice Gambit
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Gambit C30
- King's Gambit Accepted C33
- King's Knight's Gambit C34
- King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit C34
- King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit C39
- King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit C39
- Berlin Defense C39
- King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Anderssen Defense C39
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King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky, Rice Gambit
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky, Rice Gambit 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.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5 7. exd5 Bd6 8. O-O, after 15 plies of opening development.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Anderssen Defense, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Rice Gambit.
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- ECO code
- C39
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 15
- Direct variations
- 1
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