Tree path 3 levels King's Pawn Game › Sicilian Defense › Smith-Morra Gambit
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game B00
- Sicilian Defense B20
- Smith-Morra Gambit B21 you are here
Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit
Overview
Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO B21, 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.
It is reached after 3 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 c5 2. d4.
The line refines Sicilian Defense, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 4 documented sub-systems: Sicilian Defense: Coles Sicilian Gambit, Sicilian Defense: Halasz Gambit, Sicilian Defense: Morphy Gambit, and others.
In total, the branch covers 29 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- B21
- Group
- Semi-Open Games (B)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- Sicilian Defense
- Direct variations
- 4
- Total in subtree
- 29
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Variations (4)
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- B21 Sicilian Defense: Coles Sicilian Gambit 9-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Halasz Gambit 5-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Morphy Gambit 5-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit 5-ply
- B21 Andreaschek Gambit 7-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted 6-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Declined, Alapin Formation 6-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Declined, Center Formation 6-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Declined, Push Variation 6-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Declined, Scandinavian Formation 6-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Declined, Wing Formation 6-ply
- B21 Chicago Defense 14-ply
- B21 Classical Formation 14-ply
- B21 Danish Variation 7-ply
- B21 Fianchetto Defense 10-ply
- B21 Finegold Defense 16-ply
- B21 Kan Formation 10-ply
- B21 Morphy Defense 12-ply
- B21 Paulsen Formation 12-ply
- B21 Pin Defense 12-ply
- B21 Scheveningen Formation 12-ply
- B21 Siberian Variation 12-ply
- B21 Sozin Formation 16-ply
- B21 Taimanov Formation 12-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Declined, Dubois Variation 7-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted, Chicago Defense 18-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted, Larsen Defense 16-ply
- B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted, Morphy Defense Deferred 16-ply
- B21 Siberian Trap 16-ply