Tree path 9 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Italian Game › Two Knights Defense › Open Variation › Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Dubois Réti Defense › Italian Game: Scotch Gambit › Double Gambit Accepted
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Double Gambit Accepted
Overview
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Double Gambit Accepted belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C56, 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.
It is reached after 10 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. O-O Nxe4.
The line refines Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 2 documented sub-systems: Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Anderssen Attack, Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Nakhmanson Gambit.
In total, the branch covers 3 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C56
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 10
- Parent
- Italian Game: Scotch Gambit
- Direct variations
- 2
- Total in subtree
- 3
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