King's Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 · you play white
4 chapters, 8 moves deep, get you to 92% of what you will actually meet. The other 2 cover the last 6%.
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At your level
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Depth
16 plies of this opening
Chapters
4
Decisions
55
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How this goes wrong at your level
Counted from 4,500,000 games by players in your band. These are moves that get played often and then lose — no engine was asked for an opinion.
What you are most likely to fall for
— the 5 costliest of 6
1.e4 e5 2.f4 f6
Nf3 — played 62% of the time here.
You score 58% after it, against 72% for everything else played from this position, over 496 games.
Instead:
fxe5
78%
f5
62%
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4
Ne5 — played 37% of the time here.
You score 42% after it, against 56% for everything else played from this position, over 469 games.
Instead:
O-O
56%
Bxf7+
55%
1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5
fxe5 — played 5% of the time here.
You score 37% after it, against 50% for everything else played from this position, over 482 games.
Instead:
d4
56%
Qe2
56%
d3
54%
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.d4 g4
Ne5 — played 61% of the time here.
You score 34% after it, against 57% for everything else played from this position, over 223 games.
Instead:
Bc4
62%
Bxf4
55%
1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 c6 4.dxc6 Nxc6
fxe5 — played 33% of the time here.
You score 12% after it, against 49% for everything else played from this position, over 72 games.
Instead:
Nf3
46%
What your opponents fall for
— the 5 costliest of 6
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5
Qe7 — played 35% of the time here.
They score 28% after it, against 38% for everything else played from this position, over 760 games.
They should play:
Ng8
39%
1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.fxe5
dxe4 — played 58% of the time here.
They score 53% after it, against 76% for everything else played from this position, over 276 games.
They should play:
Qh4+
85%
1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.fxe5 Nxe5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.d4 Ng6 6.e5
Qe7 — played 21% of the time here.
They score 18% after it, against 41% for everything else played from this position, over 73 games.
They should play:
Ng8
43%
1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 f6 4.fxe5
Nxe5 — played 37% of the time here.
They score 17% after it, against 49% for everything else played from this position, over 50 games.
They should play:
fxe5
48%
1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 Bc5 4.d4 exd4 5.Bd3
Nf6 — played 14% of the time here.
They score 20% after it, against 45% for everything else played from this position, over 57 games.
They should play:
Nge7
46%
d6
45%
Found by testing 94,688 decisions in your band’s games and keeping only those where the drop in score is more than four standard errors below the alternatives. About 3.17 of these would be expected by chance alone.
Your moves are chosen by the engine and checked against 3,439,091 games (Lichess Elite (2500+ vs 2300+), 2024-12 → 2025-11); their replies are what people actually play. Evaluations from Lichess Stockfish evaluations (database.lichess.org) (CC0 1.0 Universal), covering 92% of this course.