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Scandinavian Defense: Blackburne Gambit

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Overview

Scandinavian Defense: Blackburne Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO B01, Semi-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 Semi-Open Games group covers semi-open games — replies to 1.e4 where Black declines the symmetrical 1…e5 in favour of an asymmetric pawn structure.

The line arises from 6 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 c6 3. dxc6 Nxc6.

The line refines Scandinavian Defense: Blackburne-Kloosterboer Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
B01
Group
Semi-Open Games (B)
Plies
6
Parent
Scandinavian Defense: Blackburne-Kloosterboer Gambit

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