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King's Gambit
Overview
King's Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C30, 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 3 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 e5 2. f4.
The line is a first-level refinement of King's Pawn Game.
The line has 10 documented children — King's Gambit Accepted, King's Gambit Declined: Classical Variation, King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, and others being widely played.
Across every depth of the tree this branch holds 189 documented sub-variations, reflecting decades of analytical work.
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- ECO code
- C30
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- King's Pawn Game
- Direct variations
- 10
- Total in subtree
- 189
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Statistics from Lichess
48,263,232 games · White 51.6% / Draw 3.6% / Black 44.8%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| exf4 | 21,525,055 | |
| Nc6 | 9,670,549 | |
| d5 | 6,173,363 | |
| d6 | 6,101,709 | |
| Bc5 | 1,917,121 | |
| Nf6 | 1,046,877 | |
| Qh4+ | 622,021 | |
| f6 | 353,042 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 00:54:49
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Variations (10)
- C33 King's Gambit Accepted
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Classical Variation
- C31 King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Keene's Defense
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Norwalde Variation
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Panteldakis Countergambit
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Petrov's Defense
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Queen's Knight Defense
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Soller-Zilbermints Gambit
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Zilbermints Double Countergambit
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