Tree path 6 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted › Bishop's Gambit › Lopez Variation › King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, McDonnell Attack
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Gambit C30
- King's Gambit Accepted C33
- Bishop's Gambit C33
- Lopez Variation C33
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King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, McDonnell Attack
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, McDonnell Attack belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C33, 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. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 g5 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. d4 Ne7 7. g3, after 13 plies of opening development.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Lopez Variation, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C33
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 13
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Statistics from Lichess
21 games · White 66.7% / Draw 9.5% / Black 23.8%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| fxg3 | 19 | |
| Qh6 | 2 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:49:04
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