King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5

The King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky 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. It is a line of the King's Gambit Accepted. Black is to move. 8 named lines continue from this position.

In 12.6 million rated Lichess games (blitz and slower), this position was reached 1,461 times by this move order. White won 48%, 4% were drawn and Black won 48%. The most popular continuation is 5… h5 (41% of games).

Engine evaluation: −0.17 (Stockfish, depth 54; best line 5… d6 6. Nxg4 Be7 7. d4 Bxh4+ 8. Nf2)

ECO: C39
Moves: 9 plies
FEN: rnbqkbnr/pppp1p1p/8/4N3/4PppP/8/PPPP2P1/RNBQKB1R b KQkq - 1 5
PGN: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5

Analyse with Stockfish · Board image (SVG) · Open on Lichess

Results by rating

Average rating	Games	White / draw / Black
0-1499	129	47%53%
1500-1999	1,008	47%49%
2000+	324	50%46%
All	1,461	48%48%

Most played moves

Move	Games	White / draw / Black
5… h5 Kieseritzky Gambit, Long Whip	595 (41%)	54%43%
5… d6 Kieseritzky Gambit, Kolisch Defense	444 (30%)	43%52%
5… Nf6 Kieseritzky Gambit, Berlin Defense	139 (10%)	33%64%
5… g3	60 (4%)	48%50%
5… Qe7 Kieseritzky Gambit, Rosenthal Defense	53 (4%)	45%51%
5… Be7 Kieseritzky, Polerio Defense	42 (3%)	57%43%
5… d5 Kieseritzky Gambit, Brentano Defense (5. Ne5 d5)	38 (3%)	50%45%
5… f3	23 (2%)	48%52%

Master games

4 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 100%, draw 0%, Black 0%). The strongest:

FM Atilla Kuru (2397) – FM Egor Kurchenko (2255) 1-0 · Titled Tue 10th Sep Late · 2024-09-10
IM Arad Nazari (2375) – WFM Radmila Kovacevic (2064) 1-0 · Titled Tue 6th Feb Early · 2024-02-06
FM Atilla Kuru (2397) – Dominique Myers (2029) 1-0 · Titled Tue 1st Oct Late · 2024-10-01
FM Martin Horak (2337) – Dominique Myers (1990) 1-0 · Titled Tuesday 22nd Sept · 2020-09-22

Search all games of the King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit and its sub-variations

Highest-rated Lichess games

GM second_life (2537) – danylo03 (2612) 0-1 · 2026-09-07 · 180 + 2s
variastrix93 (2445) – FM Metadust (2509) 0-1 · 2026-09-03 · 180 + 0s
Greifax (2516) – RomanovRG (2397) 1-0 · 2026-09-02 · 180 + 0s

Comes from

King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit (3… g5 4. h4) 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4

Continuations

King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Berlin Defense C39 · 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Brentano Defense (5. Ne5 d5) C39 · 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 d5
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Kolisch Defense C39 · 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 d6
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Long Whip C39 · 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 h5
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Neumann Defense C39 · 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nc6
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Paulsen Defense C39 · 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Bg7
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Rosenthal Defense C39 · 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Qe7
King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky, Polerio Defense C39 · 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Be7

More King's Gambit Accepted lines (all)

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.