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- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Gambit C30
- King's Gambit Accepted C33
- King's Knight's Gambit C34
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King's Gambit Accepted: Modern Defense
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Modern Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C36, 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.
The line arises from 6 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, King's Gambit Accepted: Modern Defense.
Together the deeper variations number 3 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- C36
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 6
- Direct variations
- 1
- Total in subtree
- 3
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Statistics from Lichess
2,430,170 games · White 50.4% / Draw 3.9% / Black 45.7%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| exd5 | 1,593,184 | |
| e5 | 670,706 | |
| Nc3 | 49,681 | |
| d4 | 40,304 | |
| Bc4 | 25,140 | |
| d3 | 16,098 | |
| Ne5 | 15,389 | |
| Bd3 | 5,468 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:25:27
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