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The Center Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5. 2. d4 exd4. The game usually continues 3.Qxd4 Nc6, developing with a gain of tempo for Black due to the attack on the white queen. (Note that 3.c3 is considered a separate opening: the Danish Gambit .) This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.
Hobbs Gambit – A02 – 1.f4 g5 [16] Dudweiler Gambit – A02 – 1.f4 d5 2.g4 [17] Bahr Gambit – A02 – 1.f4 e5 2.Nc3 [18] Sturm Gambit – A02 – 1.f4 d5 2.c4 [19] Wagner-Zwitersch Gambit – A02 – 1.f4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.g4 [20] Hobbs-Zilbermints Gambit – A02 – 1.f4 h6 2.Nf3 g5 [21] Lasker Gambit – A02 – 1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 ...
This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system.The chess openings are categorised into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken up into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99").
Wing Gambit. In chess, a Wing Gambit is an opening in which White plays an early b4, deflecting an enemy pawn or bishop from c5 so as to regain control of d4, an important central square. (Or in which Black plays ...b5, but Wing Gambits offered by Black are very rare.) The most common Wing Gambit is in the Sicilian Defence (1.e4 c5 2.b4).
The McDonnell Gambit is a chess opening gambit in the King's Gambit, Classical Variation that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. Nc3.
Indian Defences: a complex of chess openings beginning – 1.d4 Nf6, including the Nimzo-Indian Defence, Queen's Indian Defence, King's Indian Defence, Bogo-Indian Defence, Old Indian Defence, Janowski Indian Defence, etc. Inverted Hungarian Opening – 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Be2. Irish Gambit (or Chicago Gambit) – 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nxe5.
Smith–Morra Gambit. In chess, the Smith–Morra Gambit (or simply Morra Gambit) is an opening gambit against the Sicilian Defence distinguished by the moves: White sacrifices a pawn to develop quickly and create attacking chances. In exchange for the gambit pawn, White has a piece developed after 4.Nxc3 and a pawn in the center, while Black ...
Halasz gambit - C21 - 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.f4; Irish (Chicago) gambit - C44 - 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nxe5 Nxe5 4.d4 ... A gambit is an offer of material in the hopes of ...