Tree path 6 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted › King's Knight's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: Modern Defense › King's Gambit Accepted: Modern Defense
- 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: Modern Defense C36
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King's Gambit Accepted: Modern Defense
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Modern Defense is a gambit, classified under ECO code C36 within the Open Games family. As with all gambits, one side sacrifices material early — usually a pawn — in exchange for development, open lines, or initiative.
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 d5 4. exd5, after 7 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of King's Gambit Accepted: Modern Defense, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, King's Gambit Accepted: Abbazia Defense.
In total, the branch covers 2 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C36
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 7
- Direct variations
- 1
- Total in subtree
- 2
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