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King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Staunton Line

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Overview

King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Staunton Line belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C31, 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 d5 3. exd5 e4, after 6 plies of opening development.

The line refines King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit Accepted, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

The line splits into 3 documented sub-systems: King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Anderssen Attack, King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Charousek Gambit, King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Rubinstein Variation.

In total, the branch covers 11 sub-variations across all depths.

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ECO code
C31
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
6
Parent
King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit Accepted
Direct variations
3
Total in subtree
11

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Variations (3)

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Sister lines that share the same parent King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit Accepted:

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