Tree path 6 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Scotch Game › Scotch Game › Scotch Gambit
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Normal Variation C44
- Scotch Game C44
- Scotch Game C44
- Scotch Gambit C44 you are here
Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit
Overview
Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C44, 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 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4, after 7 plies of opening development.
The line refines Scotch Game, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
The line has 8 documented children — Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Canal Variation, Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, de Riviere Defense, Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Janowski Defense, and others being widely played.
In total, the branch covers 18 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C44
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 7
- Parent
- Scotch Game
- Direct variations
- 8
- Total in subtree
- 18
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Variations (8)
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Canal Variation
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, de Riviere Defense
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Janowski Defense
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Yurdansky Attack
- C44 Scotch Game: Haxo Gambit
- C44 Advance Variation
- C44 London Defense
Show all 18 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Canal Variation 13-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, de Riviere Defense 10-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Janowski Defense 10-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack 10-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Yurdansky Attack 25-ply
- C44 Scotch Game: Haxo Gambit 8-ply
- C44 Advance Variation 9-ply
- C44 London Defense 8-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack 11-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack, Loman Defense 18-ply
- C44 Scotch Game: Cochrane Variation 13-ply
- C44 Scotch Game: Hanneken Variation 18-ply
- C44 Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Cochrane-Anderssen Variation 12-ply
- C44 Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Sarratt Variation 9-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack, Long Variation 21-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack, Spielmann Defense 12-ply
- C44 Scotch Game: Cochrane-Shumov Defense 18-ply
- C44 Scotch Game: Vitzthum Attack 11-ply