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: Kieseritzky Gambit › Berlin Defense › Rubinstein Variation
- 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 C39
- King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit C39
- Berlin Defense C39
- Rubinstein Variation C39 you are here
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Berlin Defense, Rubinstein Variation
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Berlin Defense, Rubinstein Variation 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.
It begins with 11 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. d4 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Berlin Defense, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C39
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 11
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Statistics from Lichess
3,867 games · White 43.3% / Draw 4.2% / Black 52.6%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| d6 | 3,256 | |
| Nxe4 | 245 | |
| d5 | 192 | |
| h5 | 52 | |
| Bh6 | 26 | |
| Bg7 | 23 | |
| Nc6 | 22 | |
| Nh5 | 19 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:28:44
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