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- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game A40
- Englund Gambit A40
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Englund Gambit: Mosquito Gambit
Overview
Englund Gambit: Mosquito Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO A40, 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.
It begins with 4 plies and takes 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines Englund Gambit, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- A40
- Group
- Flank Openings (A)
- Plies
- 4
- Parent
- Englund Gambit
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