Tree path 8 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Three Knights Opening › Four Knights Game › Scotch Variation › Krause Gambit › Leonhardt Defense
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Normal Variation C44
- Three Knights Opening C46
- Four Knights Game C47
- Scotch Variation C47
- Krause Gambit C47
- Leonhardt Defense C47 you are here
Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation, Krause Gambit, Leonhardt Defense
Overview
Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation, Krause Gambit, Leonhardt Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C47, 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.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 Bb4 5. Nxe5 Qe7, after 10 plies of opening development.
The line refines Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation, Krause Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C47
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 10
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