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: Traditional Variation › King's Gambit Accepted: Philidor 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
- King's Gambit Accepted: Traditional Variation C38
- King's Gambit Accepted: Philidor Gambit C38 you are here
King's Gambit Accepted: Philidor Gambit
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Philidor Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C38, 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 9 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Traditional Variation, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, King's Gambit Accepted: Greco Gambit.
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- ECO code
- C38
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 9
- Direct variations
- 1
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Statistics from Lichess
46,199 games · White 47.5% / Draw 3.7% / Black 48.9%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| h6 | 27,297 | |
| g4 | 15,895 | |
| f6 | 1,801 | |
| gxh4 | 269 | |
| d5 | 254 | |
| d6 | 158 | |
| Bf6 | 131 | |
| Qe7 | 123 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:03:24
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