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- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- Bishop's Opening C23
- Boi Variation C23
- Bishop's Opening: McDonnell Gambit C23
- McDonnell Double Gambit C23
- Bishop's Opening: Four Pawns Gambit C23 you are here
Bishop's Opening: Four Pawns Gambit
Overview
Bishop's Opening: Four Pawns Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C23, Open Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
It begins with 17 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. b4 Bxb4 4. f4 exf4 5. Nf3 Be7 6. d4 Bh4+ 7. g3 fxg3 8. O-O gxh2+ 9. Kh1 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines Bishop's Opening: McDonnell Gambit, McDonnell Double Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C23
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 17
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