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King's Pawn Game: Damiano Defense, Damiano Gambit

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Overview

King's Pawn Game: Damiano Defense, Damiano Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C40, 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. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 fxe5 4. Qh5+ g6 5. Qxe5+ Qe7 6. Qxh8, after 11 plies of opening development.

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

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ECO code
C40
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
11
Parent
King's Pawn Game: Damiano Defense

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