Tree path 7 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Italian Game › Two Knights Defense › Open Variation › Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Dubois Réti Defense
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Normal Variation C44
- Italian Game C50
- Two Knights Defense C55
- Open Variation C56
- Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Dubois Réti Defense C44 you are here
Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Dubois Réti Defense
Overview
Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Dubois Réti Defense 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.
The line arises from 8 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4.
The line refines Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Open Variation, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 4 documented sub-systems: Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack, Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Perreux Variation, and others.
Together the deeper variations number 12 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- C44
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 8
- Direct variations
- 4
- Total in subtree
- 12
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Variations (4)
Show all 12 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit 9-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack 12-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Perreux Variation 9-ply
- C44 Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit, Kingside Variation 10-ply
- C56 Double Gambit Accepted 10-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Keidansky Variation 18-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack, Berger Variation 26-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack, Krause Variation 13-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack, Rubinstein Variation 22-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Anderssen Attack 15-ply
- C56 Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Nakhmanson Gambit 11-ply
- C56 Main Line 21-ply