King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Anderssen-Cordel Gambit

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5 7. exd5 Bd6 8. d4 Nh5 9. Bxf4 Nxf4

The King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Anderssen-Cordel Gambit is a chess opening classified as ECO C39, reached after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5 7. exd5 Bd6 8. d4 Nh5 9. Bxf4 Nxf4. It is a line of the King's Gambit Accepted. White 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: −3.04 (Stockfish, depth 22; best line 10. O-O f6 11. Nxg4 O-O 12. Nh6+ Kg7)

ECO

C39

Moves

18 plies

FEN

rnbqk2r/ppp2p1p/3b4/3PN3/2BP1npP/8/PPP3P1/RN1QK2R w KQkq - 0 10

PGN

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5 7. exd5 Bd6 8. d4 Nh5 9. Bxf4 Nxf4

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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.