King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky, Salvio Defense, Cozio Variation

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Qe7 6. d4 f5 7. Bc4

The King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky, Salvio Defense, Cozio Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO C39, reached after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Qe7 6. d4 f5 7. Bc4. 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: +1.25 (Stockfish, depth 30; best line 7… d6 8. Bf7+ Kd8 9. Nc3 dxe5 10. dxe5+)

ECO

C39

Moves

13 plies

FEN

rnb1kbnr/ppppq2p/8/4Np2/2BPPppP/8/PPP3P1/RNBQK2R b KQkq - 1 7

PGN

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Qe7 6. d4 f5 7. Bc4

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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.