Tree path 8 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, Max Lange Attack
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Normal Variation C44
- Italian Game C50
- Two Knights Defense C55
- Open Variation C56
- Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Dubois Réti Defense C44
- Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack C56 you are here
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack
Overview
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack 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 begins with 12 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. e5 d5 6. Bb5 Ne4 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Dubois Réti Defense, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Keidansky Variation.
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- ECO code
- C56
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 12
- Direct variations
- 1
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