Tree path 9 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: Allgaier Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Cotter Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: Allgaier, Blackburne Gambit
- Caissa 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: Allgaier Gambit C39
- King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Cotter Gambit C39
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King's Gambit Accepted: Allgaier, Blackburne Gambit
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Allgaier, Blackburne 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. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Nc3, after 13 plies of opening development.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Cotter Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C39
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 13
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Statistics from Lichess
1,542 games · White 57.8% / Draw 2.2% / Black 40.0%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| d6 | 685 | |
| h5 | 327 | |
| Nf6 | 227 | |
| d5 | 142 | |
| c6 | 70 | |
| Nc6 | 21 | |
| Bg7 | 15 | |
| f3 | 14 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:49:22
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