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: Muzio Gambit, Wild Muzio Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: Muzio Gambit, Brentano 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: King's Knight's Gambit C34
- King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit C37
- King's Gambit Accepted: Muzio Gambit, Wild Muzio Gambit C37
- King's Gambit Accepted: Muzio Gambit, Brentano Defense C37 you are here
King's Gambit Accepted: Muzio Gambit, Brentano Defense
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Muzio Gambit, Brentano Defense 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.
It begins with 10 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. O-O d5 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Muzio Gambit, Wild Muzio Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C37
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 10
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