Tree path 7 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: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit
- 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
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King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit 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.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. d4, after 9 plies of opening development.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 2 documented sub-systems: King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit, King's Gambit Accepted: Kotov Gambit.
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- ECO code
- C37
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 9
- Direct variations
- 2
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Statistics from Lichess
62,162 games · White 55.1% / Draw 2.6% / Black 42.3%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| gxf3 | 58,360 | |
| Qh4+ | 1,194 | |
| d5 | 929 | |
| d6 | 426 | |
| Nc6 | 202 | |
| Bh6 | 173 | |
| g3 | 151 | |
| Nh6 | 116 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:02:56
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