Tree path 6 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted › King's Knight's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: MacLeod Defense › Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Hamppe-Allgaier Gambit, Thorold Variation
- 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: MacLeod Defense C34
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Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Hamppe-Allgaier Gambit, Thorold Variation
Overview
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Hamppe-Allgaier Gambit, Thorold Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C25, 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 15 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Nc3 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng5 h6 7. Nxf7 Kxf7 8. d4.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: MacLeod Defense, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C25
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 15
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Statistics from Lichess
3,686 games · White 57.5% / Draw 3.8% / Black 38.7%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| d6 | 1,443 | |
| h5 | 524 | |
| d5 | 407 | |
| Qf6 | 282 | |
| Bb4 | 266 | |
| f3 | 257 | |
| Bg7 | 233 | |
| Nf6 | 158 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 13:14:05
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