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- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- Bishop's Opening C23
- Boi Variation C23
- Bishop's Opening: Philidor Variation C23
- Bishop's Opening: Lewis Countergambit C23
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Bishop's Opening: Lewis Countergambit
Overview
Bishop's Opening: Lewis Countergambit 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.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. c3 d5 4. Bxd5 Nf6, after 8 plies of opening development.
The line refines Bishop's Opening: Lewis Countergambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Walker Variation.
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- ECO code
- C23
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 8
- Direct variations
- 1
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