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- Chess Codex
- French Defense C00
- Normal Variation C00
- French Defense C00
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French Defense: Morphy Gambit
Overview
French Defense: Morphy Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C00, 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 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nh3, after 5 plies of opening development.
The line refines French Defense, which traces back to the root opening French Defense.
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- ECO code
- C00
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 5
- Parent
- French Defense
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