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Bird Opening: Lasker Gambit

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Overview

Bird Opening: Lasker Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO A02, Flank Openings). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.

The Flank Openings group covers flank openings — systems that delay the central pawn break and instead develop pieces and pawns on the wings.

Play reaches this position via 1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 f6, after 4 plies of opening development.

The line refines Bird Opening: From's Gambit, which traces back to the root opening Bird Opening.

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ECO code
A02
Group
Flank Openings (A)
Plies
4
Parent
Bird Opening: From's Gambit

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Statistics from Lichess

44,415 games · White 51.5% / Draw 3.6% / Black 44.9%

MovesGamesW / D / B
exf630,057
Nf310,483
e41,631
d41,107
e6524
e3280
Nc395
g388

Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 00:34:08

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