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King's Gambit Declined: Zilbermints Double Countergambit

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Overview

King's Gambit Declined: Zilbermints Double Countergambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C30, 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 4 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. f4 g5 to reach the canonical position.

The line refines King's Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
C30
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
4
Parent
King's Gambit

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