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: Rosentreter Gambit › Testa Variation
King's Gambit Accepted: Rosentreter Gambit, Testa Variation
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Rosentreter Gambit, Testa Variation 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.
It is reached after 9 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. d4 g4 5. Bxf4.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Rosentreter Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C37
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 9
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Statistics from Lichess
34,298 games · White 53.9% / Draw 2.9% / Black 43.2%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| gxf3 | 34,073 | |
| g3 | 68 | |
| Qh4+ | 53 | |
| d6 | 24 | |
| Qf6 | 20 | |
| Bh6 | 12 | |
| Nf6 | 9 | |
| d5 | 9 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:03:11
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