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- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Gambit C30
- King's Gambit Accepted C33
- King's Knight's Gambit C34
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King's Gambit Accepted: Schallopp Defense
Overview
King's Gambit Accepted: Schallopp Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C34, 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.
It is reached after 6 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nf6.
The line refines King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Tashkent Attack.
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- ECO code
- C34
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 6
- Direct variations
- 1
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Statistics from Lichess
1,583,497 games · White 53.6% / Draw 3.6% / Black 42.8%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| e5 | 641,730 | |
| Nc3 | 547,803 | |
| Bc4 | 242,559 | |
| d3 | 85,173 | |
| d4 | 55,815 | |
| Bd3 | 2,719 | |
| Qe2 | 2,194 | |
| Be2 | 1,373 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:25:18
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