Aggressive Chess Opening Discussion #11: King's Gambit Series: King's Gambit Accepted

We are continuing the Modern Variation of the King's Gambit Accepted series with the final move and is the most popular line with 5.Bc4. Let's get started.

After 5.Bc4, white's plan is pretty simple. Develop the bishop to put some pressure on f7. Black will capture the pawn back and have a nicely centralized knight 5...Nxd5. White will castle 6.O-O for king safety. Black has 2 options: They can develop the light squared bishop to e6 6...Be6 or develop the dark squared bishop to e7 6...Be7. Let's start with the move Be6.

After 6...Be6, black over-protects the knight and develops a piece also this could lead to a tactic with taking the light squared bishop after a move such as Nc3. That's why white should play 7.Bb3 defending the bishop. Black will play 7...c5 to demote the move d4. 8.d4 anyways. Striking for the center and controlling central squares. 8...cxd4 9.Nxd4. 9...Bc5 develops a piece with the pin towards the knight and king. 10. Kh1 gets out of the pin. 10...Bxd4 removes white's centralized knight. 11.Qxd4. 11...O-O. In this position, black is better developed and currently has an extra pawn. Black can develop the knight to c6 getting a tempo on the Queen while completing development. White still needs to complete their development, their queen is poorly misplaced, and has to move the queen to prevent any tempo from black. Which makes this position slighty better for black:

Now with 6...Be7, black continues developing their pieces. White will play 7.d4 grabbing control of the center and putting pressure on the f4 pawn. You have to defend this since white is attacking the defender of the f4 pawn, so 7...g5. This move comes with some weakness. This move was recommended by the engine. White wants to continue development, but with the knight on d5, it could ruins white's pawn structure so 8.Bxd5. Giving up the bishop pair, but with some nice development. 8...Qxd5. First, white moves 9.Re1, preventing the king from castling since the bishop would hang. Then we have 9...Bg4 pinning the knight and gaining some development. 10.Nc3 developing the knight and gaining a tempo on the Queen and then 11.Qd7. In this position, black is still better, but white will have some counterplay, so this will eventually lead to an equal position.

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I covered a lot of things about the mainline of the Modern, Abbazia defense. So next we will be moving to the move d6. I hope you guys found something instructional about this. I'd like to hear some ideas.