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: Salvio Gambit › Viennese Variation
King's Gambit Accepted: Salvio Gambit, Viennese Variation
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Salvio Gambit, Viennese 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.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. Ne5 Qh4+ 6. Kf1 Nc6, after 12 plies of opening development.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Salvio Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C37
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 12
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Statistics from Lichess
25,744 games · White 29.3% / Draw 2.2% / Black 68.5%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Nxf7 | 13,938 | |
| Bxf7+ | 4,702 | |
| Qxg4 | 3,500 | |
| Nxg4 | 2,352 | |
| Nxc6 | 676 | |
| d4 | 392 | |
| Nd3 | 82 | |
| c3 | 66 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:39:06
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