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Grünfeld Defense: Zaitsev Gambit
Overview
Grünfeld Defense: Zaitsev Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D80, Closed & Semi-Closed Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
It begins with 7 plies and takes 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. h4 to reach the canonical position.
The line is a first-level refinement of Grünfeld Defense.
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- ECO code
- D80
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 7
- Parent
- Grünfeld Defense
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