King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Cozio Variation
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 d6
The King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Cozio Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO C33, reached after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 d6. It is a line of the King's Gambit Accepted. White is to move.
In 12.6 million rated Lichess games (blitz and slower), this position was reached 126 times by this move order. White won 58%, 2% were drawn and Black won 40%. The most popular continuation is 5. Nf3 (75% of games).
Engine evaluation: −0.52 (Stockfish, depth 38; best line 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. d4 Be6 7. Be2 Ng4)
- ECO
- C33
- Moves
- 8 plies
- FEN
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1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 d6
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Results by rating
| Average rating | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 0-1499 | 13 | |
| 1500-1999 | 73 | |
| 2000+ | 40 | |
| All | 126 |
Most played moves
| Move | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 5. Nf3 | 95 (75%) | |
| 5. d4 | 16 (13%) | |
| 5. Nc3 | 10 (8%) | |
| 5. d3 | 4 (3%) | |
| 5. c3 | 1 (1%) |
Master games
82 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 27%, draw 17%, Black 56%). The strongest:
- Stockfish dev-20250118-8e3e22b (3683) – LCZero 0.31-dag-c93c6a8-BT4-61 (3652) 1/2-1/2 · TCEC 27 Theory Bonus · 2025-01-22
- LCZero 0.31-dag-e429eeb-BT3-2790000 (3642) – Stockfish dev-20231010-00263636 (3673) 0-1 · TCEC 25 Superfinal 2023 · 2023-10-12
- Stockfish dev-20231010-00263636 (3673) – LCZero 0.31-dag-e429eeb-BT3-2790000 (3642) 1/2-1/2 · TCEC 25 Superfinal 2023 · 2023-10-12
- GM Vasyl Ivanchuk (2731) – GM Sergey Karjakin (2757) 1-0 · Vladimir Petrov Mem 2015 · 2015-03-08
- GM Vasyl Ivanchuk (2678) – GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2750) 0-1 · Duda-Ivanchuk Help UKR m · 2022-07-20
Highest-rated Lichess games
- Coach13 (2806) – Chess1Love0 (2807) 1-0 · 2026-09-06 · 180 + 0s
- SugarMagnolia (2509) – abmcdonald (2500) 1-0 · 2026-09-02 · 180 + 0s
- Archpoet (2459) – Hchess_97 (2352) 0-1 · 2026-09-04 · 180 + 0s
Comes from
King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4
More King's Gambit Accepted lines (all)
- King's Gambit Accepted C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Basman Gambit C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Anderssen Defense C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Anderssen Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bledow Countergambit C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bledow Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Boden Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Defense C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Boren-Svenonius Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bryan Countergambit C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Chigorin's Attack C33
Opening names and moves from the Lichess openings dataset; statistics from the Lichess open database, 2026-09 (CC0), sample of 12.6 million games, bots excluded; evaluations from Lichess cloud analysis (all CC0). Master games from The Week in Chess #920–#1664 by Mark Crowther, used with permission.