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Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Shaviliuk Gambit
Overview
Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Shaviliuk Gambit is a gambit, classified under ECO code D00 within the Closed & Semi-Closed Games family. As with all gambits, one side sacrifices material early — usually a pawn — in exchange for development, open lines, or initiative.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
Play reaches this position via 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 e5, after 4 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, which itself descends from the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- D00
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 4
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