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C31

King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Nimzowitsch-Marshall Countergambit

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Overview

King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Nimzowitsch-Marshall Countergambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C31, 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 begins with 6 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 c6 to reach the canonical position.

The line refines King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit Accepted, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

It continues primarily into one named line, King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Pickler Gambit.

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ECO code
C31
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
6
Parent
King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit Accepted
Direct variations
1

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Statistics from Lichess

222,000 games · White 38.3% / Draw 3.5% / Black 58.2%

MovesGamesW / D / B
dxc6122,450
fxe530,784
Nf327,026
Nc314,525
d48,985
Qe26,334
d34,336
d62,974

Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:24:30

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Variations (1)

Related variations at the same level

Sister lines that share the same parent King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit Accepted:

https://chesscodex.org/openings/kings-gambit-declined-falkbeer-countergambit-nimzowitsch-marshall-countergambit