King's Gambit Accepted: Quaade Gambit
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Nc3
The King's Gambit Accepted: Quaade Gambit is a chess opening classified as ECO C37, reached after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Nc3. It is a line of the King's Gambit Accepted. Black is to move.
In 12.6 million rated Lichess games (blitz and slower), this position was reached 288 times by this move order. White won 51%, 5% were drawn and Black won 44%. The most popular continuation is 4… g4 (38% of games).
Engine evaluation: −0.66 (Stockfish, depth 55; best line 4… Nc6 5. g3 g4 6. Nh4 Nd4 7. Nd5)
- ECO
- C37
- Moves
- 7 plies
- FEN
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1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Nc3
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Results by rating
| Average rating | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 0-1499 | 55 | |
| 1500-1999 | 154 | |
| 2000+ | 79 | |
| All | 288 |
Most played moves
| Move | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 4… g4 | 109 (38%) | |
| 4… Bg7 | 54 (19%) | |
| 4… d6 | 45 (16%) | |
| 4… h6 | 26 (9%) | |
| 4… Nc6 | 21 (7%) | |
| 4… c6 | 12 (4%) | |
| 4… h5 | 6 (2%) | |
| 4… Bb4 | 4 (1%) |
Master games
97 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 54%, draw 21%, Black 25%). The strongest:
- Stoofvlees II d9 (3541) – Reckless 0.10.0-dev-9057bc13 (3749) 1/2-1/2 · TCEC 29 Gambit Bonus 2026 · 2026-05-31
- Reckless 0.10.0-dev-9057bc13 (3749) – Stoofvlees II d9 (3541) 1/2-1/2 · TCEC 29 Gambit Bonus 2026 · 2026-05-31
- GM Ruslan Ponomariov (2712) – GM Gabriel Sargissian (2702) 1-0 · IMSA Blitz 2016 · 2016-03-01
- GM Gareev, T. (2598) – GM Andreas Heimann (2617) 1/2-1/2 · Sunway Sitges Open TB · 2019-12-22
- GM Boris Savchenko (2581) – GM Sergey Smagin (2551) 1-0 · ch-RUS Blitz 2019 · 2019-10-17
Search all games of the King's Gambit Accepted: Quaade Gambit and its sub-variations
Highest-rated Lichess games
- T-80BVM (2642) – iKun123 (2451) 0-1 · 2026-09-05 · 180 + 0s
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- Abuev_Roman (2422) – swynwr (2455) 1-0 · 2026-09-01 · 180 + 0s
Comes from
King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit (3. Nf3 g5) 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5
More King's Gambit Accepted lines (all)
- King's Gambit Accepted C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Basman Gambit C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Anderssen Defense C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Anderssen Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bledow Countergambit C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bledow Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Boden Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Defense C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Boren-Svenonius Variation C33
- King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bryan Countergambit C33
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.