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Center Game
Overview
Center Game is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C20.
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 3 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. d4.
It is a direct variation of King's Pawn Game.
It branches into 3 notable variations — Center Game Accepted, King's Pawn Game: Beyer Gambit, King's Pawn Game: Philidor Gambit.
In total, the branch covers 28 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C20
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- King's Pawn Game
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 28
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Variations (3)
Show all 28 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C21 Center Game Accepted 4-ply
- C20 King's Pawn Game: Beyer Gambit 4-ply
- C20 King's Pawn Game: Philidor Gambit 6-ply
- C21 Center Game 5-ply
- C21 Center Game: Halasz-McDonnell Gambit 5-ply
- C21 Center Game: Kieseritzky Variation 5-ply
- C21 Center Game: Ross Gambit 5-ply
- C21 Center Game: von der Lasa Gambit 5-ply
- C21 Danish Gambit 5-ply
- C21 Crocodile Variation 9-ply
- C21 Center Game: Kieseritzky Variation 6-ply
- C21 Center Game: Lanc-Arnold Gambit 7-ply
- C22 Normal Variation 6-ply
- C21 Danish Gambit Accepted 6-ply
- C21 Danish Gambit Accepted: Svenonius Defense 6-ply
- C21 Danish Gambit Declined: Sörensen Defense 6-ply
- C22 Center Game: Hall Variation 7-ply
- C21 Center Game: Kieseritzky Variation 7-ply
- C21 Schippler Gambit 9-ply
- C22 Center Game: Paulsen Attack Variation 7-ply
- C21 Chigorin Defense 10-ply
- C21 Classical Defense 10-ply
- C21 Copenhagen Defense 10-ply
- C21 Schlechter Defense 10-ply
- C22 Center Game: Berger Variation 8-ply
- C22 Center Game: Charousek Variation 10-ply
- C22 Center Game: l'Hermet Variation 8-ply
- C22 Center Game: Kupreichik Variation 17-ply