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- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- Vienna Game C25
- Max Lange Defense C25
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Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Three Knights Variation
Overview
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Three Knights Variation is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C28.
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. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6, after 6 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Vienna Game: Max Lange Defense, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It branches into 2 notable variations — Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Hromádka Variation, Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Bronstein Gambit.
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- ECO code
- C28
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 6
- Direct variations
- 2
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