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- Bird Opening A02
- Dutch Variation A03
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Bird Opening: Thomas Gambit
Overview
Bird Opening: Thomas Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO A03, Flank Openings). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Flank Openings group covers flank openings — systems that delay the central pawn break and instead develop pieces and pawns on the wings.
Play reaches this position via 1. f4 d5 2. b3 Nf6 3. Bb2 d4 4. Nf3 c5 5. e3, after 9 plies of opening development.
The line refines Bird Opening: Dutch Variation, which traces back to the root opening Bird Opening.
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- ECO code
- A03
- Group
- Flank Openings (A)
- Plies
- 9
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