Aggressive Chess Opening Discussion #6: King's Gambit Series: King's Gambit Accepted

As I said on my 4th post, I will be going over black's most popular move: 4...Bg7. This is called the King's Gambit Accepted: Traditional Line.

I don't understand why it's "traditional", maybe some chess historians can fill me in on some lessons. After Bg7, black decides to fianchetto his dark squared bishop. This move is putting a lot of pressure along the h8-a1 diagonal, staring at the a1 rook. White will have 3 options: d4, O-O, and h4. 5.d4 is just completing white's long term plan of having central control, also disrupting the bishop's view along the h8-a1 diagonal. Black must ALWAYS play 5...d6. You need to have your pieces in play. After, white will most often castle, but there is an opening that can be played here, which is called: King's Gambit Accepted: Traditional, Mayet Gambit. In which white plays 6.c3.

My assumptions about this is that white wants to strengthen their center. The problem with this is that white will have a hard time developing their bishop. So, I would want to trade off white's bad bisohp for black's good bishop. Although, even after playing c3, it can often transpose to the Main Line of the traditional variation.

After 6.O-O, black will play h6. Supporting their king side pawn structure. This will also transposes to the Hanstein Gambit of the traditional variation. As I've said, white will be playing c3 anyways and the game will continue from there. Black will develop their pieces and start a King side attack. White will have to fend off against this attack and do the same on the Queen side. The game continue from there. This is how play will start in the traditional line:

I know that white's most popular response is 8.g3, but considering the situation, I wouldn't want to weaken the king's position. So, this is the line recommended by stockfish. I would consider this. After 4...Bg7, white can also castle (5.O-O). In which this line is called the King's Gambit Accepted: Hanstein Gambit. Again, black will play 5...d6 6.d4 ...h6 7.c3 and etc. After 4...Bg7, white can play 5.h4, which is called the King's Gambit Accepted: Philidor Gambit. 

This move is challenging black's pawn structure on the King side. Black must play 5...h6 to keep the structure intact. Again, white will play 6.d4 to accomplish their long term plan of controlling the center. Black will then play 6...d6. This is known as "King's Gambit Accepted: Traditional, Philidor Gambit, Greco Gambit". Again, black wants to castle Queen side and start their attack on the king side.  White can continue in multiple ways. I'll be going over 2 ways. Not c3, since it will transpose into the usual lines I talked about earlier. 7.Qd3 or Nc3. 7.Qd3, this line is called "King's Gambit Accepted: Traditional, Philidor Gambit, Greco Gambit, Schultz Variation".

Qd3 is momentarily trying to start something on the king side, but there is nothing to start on the king side. This line was played in Adolf Anderssen-Gustav Richard Neumann in 1865, in which Adolf won the game. Simply because white had no attack. After 6...d6, white does have 7.Nc3, continuing with their development. 7...Nc6 black does the same. I'll show you guys a game played by Greco. He won this game, despite the fact that black had an entirely winning position. The romantic era of chess is truly beautiful.

I think this is all after Bc4. I'll try to finish this up by doing posting about the move 4.d4 and 4.Nc3 in a couple of days.

After Bc4 g4 you missed the whole Muzio Gambit (unless I missed your post on it), although it's not as if Chess.com is short of posts about that particular line. Also going back to 4. h4 (which is the main move unless 4. Nc3 is these days) I don't think you have any of the mainlines there yet either (if you intend to.)

@tmkroll, Oh right I did. Holy crap. I might have to post another topic on this today.

@tmkroll I don't think I missed the h4 line. It's probably on my 3rd or 2nd post about the King's Gambit. I'll have to double check to make sure. Edit: Nope, 4th post. My bad.

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I only see the Allgaier Gambit there and not many words about it "the knight can hop into the g5 square. Although, this does trap the knight, white will have some compensation for the lost piece. Considering that black's king is not safe and has no right to castle.", which is fine for the Allgaier but not the whole 4. h4 variation as 4. h4 followed by 5. Ne5, the Kieseritzky is the main line after Black's g5 (at least it was for many years, maybe 4. Nc3 is more popular nowadays, idk.)

@tmkroll, alright. I'll try to do another post on it tomorrow, as I tend to forget about the amount of lines there are in certain openings. I'll do it just for you.

I guess I appreciate it. You don't have to do it for me, though, I don't play the KG anymore except occasionally in minutes games late at night. It's just it's a main line... for example it's the line Spassky used to defeat Fischer in the one KG they played which made Fischer so mad he tried to refute the KG in an article and then Spassky didn't play it against him again, etc.... It should be included in any survey on the KG... which yeah,the opening is huge, this project is a lot of work. Do it if you want to do it; I am enjoying your posts, but that's not really important.