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C48

Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Rubinstein Variation, Marshall Gambit

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Overview

Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Rubinstein Variation, Marshall Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C48, 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. Bb5 Nd4 5. Ba4 Bc5 6. Nxe5 O-O, after 12 plies of opening development.

The line refines Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Rubinstein Variation, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
C48
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
12
Parent
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Rubinstein Variation

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