Tree path 5 levels English Opening › King's English Variation › Reversed Sicilian › English Opening: King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation › English Opening: King's English, Erbenheimer Gambit
- Chess Codex
- English Opening A10
- King's English Variation A20
- Reversed Sicilian A21
- English Opening: King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation A22
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English Opening: King's English, Erbenheimer Gambit
Overview
English Opening: King's English, Erbenheimer Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO A22, Flank Openings). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Flank Openings group covers flank openings — systems that delay the central pawn break and instead develop pieces and pawns on the wings.
Play reaches this position via 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 e4 4. Ng5 Ng4, after 8 plies of opening development.
The line refines English Opening: King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation, which traces back to the root opening English Opening.
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- ECO code
- A22
- Group
- Flank Openings (A)
- Plies
- 8
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