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Bishop's Opening: Lopez Variation, Lopez Gambit

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Overview

Bishop's Opening: Lopez Variation, Lopez 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 is reached after 7 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. Qe2 Nf6 4. f4.

The line refines Bishop's Opening: Lopez Variation, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
C23
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
7
Parent
Bishop's Opening: Lopez Variation

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