Tree path 6 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted › King's Knight's Gambit › King's Gambit Accepted: Cunningham Defense › McCormick Defense
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Gambit C30
- King's Gambit Accepted C33
- King's Knight's Gambit C34
- King's Gambit Accepted: Cunningham Defense C35
- McCormick Defense C35 you are here
King's Gambit Accepted: Cunningham Defense, McCormick Defense
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Cunningham Defense, McCormick Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C35, 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. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Be7 4. Bc4 Nf6, after 8 plies of opening development.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: Cunningham Defense, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C35
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 8
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