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Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
Overview
Blackmar-Diemer Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D00, Closed & Semi-Closed Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
The line arises from 3 plies — specifically the moves 1. d4 d5 2. e4.
The line is a first-level refinement of Queen's Pawn Game.
The line has 8 documented children — Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Blackmar Gambit, Diemer-Rosenberg Attack, and others being widely played.
Counted recursively, this branch covers 46 sub-variations at all depths.
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- ECO code
- D00
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- Queen's Pawn Game
- Direct variations
- 8
- Total in subtree
- 46
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Variations (8)
Show all 46 sub-variations (full subtree)
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit 6-ply
- D00 Blackmar Gambit 5-ply
- D00 Diemer-Rosenberg Attack 5-ply
- D00 Fritz Attack 5-ply
- D00 Lemberger Countergambit 6-ply
- D00 Netherlands Variation 6-ply
- D00 Reversed Albin Countergambit 6-ply
- D00 Zeller Defense 6-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Accepted 8-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Declined: Brombacher Countergambit 8-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Declined: Elbert Countergambit 8-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Declined: Gedult Defense 8-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Declined: Lamb Defense 8-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Declined: Langeheinicke Defense 8-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Declined: O'Kelly Defense 8-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Declined: Vienna Defense 8-ply
- D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Declined: Weinsbach Defense 8-ply
- D00 Endgame Variation 7-ply
- D00 Lange Gambit 7-ply
- D00 Rasmussen Attack 7-ply
- D00 Sneiders Attack 7-ply
- D00 Soller Attack 7-ply
- D00 Rasa-Studier Gambit 7-ply
- D00 von Popiel Gambit 7-ply
- D00 Soller Attack 9-ply
- D00 Bogoljubow Defense 10-ply
- D00 Euwe Defense 10-ply
- D00 Gunderam Defense 10-ply
- D00 Holwell Defense 10-ply
- D00 Kaulich Defense 10-ply
- D00 Pietrowsky Defense 10-ply
- D00 Ritter Defense 10-ply
- D00 Ryder Gambit 9-ply
- D00 Schlutter Defense 10-ply
- D00 Teichmann Defense 10-ply
- D00 Ziegler Defense 10-ply
- D00 Zilbermints Variation 15-ply
- D00 Kloss Attack 15-ply
- D00 Mad Dog Attack 13-ply
- D00 Nimzowitsch Attack 13-ply
- D00 Studier Attack 15-ply
- D00 Zilbermints Gambit 17-ply
- D00 Stader Variation 14-ply
- D00 Ciesielski Variation 15-ply
- D00 Classical Variation 15-ply
- D00 Seidel-Hall Attack 15-ply