King's Gambit Accepted: Greco Gambit (9… Bxh8 10. Ne5)

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 h6 6. d4 d6 7. Nc3 c6 8. hxg5 hxg5 9. Rxh8 Bxh8 10. Ne5

The King's Gambit Accepted: Greco Gambit is a chess opening classified as ECO C38, reached after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 h6 6. d4 d6 7. Nc3 c6 8. hxg5 hxg5 9. Rxh8 Bxh8 10. Ne5. It is a line of the King's Gambit Accepted. Black is to move.

This exact move order didn't appear in our sample of 12.6 million Lichess games: it's a rare line.

Engine evaluation: −2.29 (Stockfish, depth 32; best line 10… dxe5 11. Qh5 Qf6 12. dxe5 Qg7 13. g3)

ECO

C38

Moves

19 plies

FEN

rnbqk1nb/pp3p2/2pp4/4N1p1/2BPPp2/2N5/PPP3P1/R1BQK3 b Qq - 1 10

PGN

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 h6 6. d4 d6 7. Nc3 c6 8. hxg5 hxg5 9. Rxh8 Bxh8 10. Ne5

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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.