Tree path 8 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 › Paulsen Defense
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Paulsen Defense
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Paulsen Defense 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 is reached after 10 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Bg7.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C39
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 10
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Statistics from Lichess
3,762 games · White 47.0% / Draw 3.5% / Black 49.5%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Nxg4 | 3,259 | |
| d4 | 355 | |
| Nxf7 | 127 | |
| Qxg4 | 13 | |
| Bc4 | 4 | |
| Nd3 | 2 | |
| c3 | 1 | |
| Nc3 | 1 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:16:54
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