King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit (4… g4 5. d4)

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. d4

The King's Gambit Accepted: Ghulam-Kassim Gambit is a chess opening classified as ECO C37, reached after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. d4. It is a line of the King's Gambit Accepted. Black is to move. 2 named lines continue from this position.

In 12.6 million rated Lichess games (blitz and slower), this position was reached 47 times by this move order. White won 60%, 2% were drawn and Black won 38%. The most popular continuation is 5… gxf3 (98% of games).

Engine evaluation: −1.62 (Stockfish, depth 36; best line 5… gxf3 6. O-O d5 7. exd5 Bg4 8. Qd3)

ECO

C37

Moves

9 plies

FEN

rnbqkbnr/pppp1p1p/8/8/2BPPpp1/5N2/PPP3PP/RNBQK2R b KQkq - 0 5

PGN

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. d4

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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.