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Scotch Game
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4. White opens the centre straight away and exchanges on d4. The aim is free, active pieces and more space, without the long manoeuvring of the Ruy Lopez.
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A key line
Scotch Game: Mieses, 8...Ba6
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8.c4 Ba6 9.b3
More lines
Scotch Game: Mieses, 8...Nb6
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8.c4 Nb6 9.Nc3
Scotch Game: Classical, 7.Bc4 Ne5
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Be3 Qf6 6.c3 Nge7 7.Bc4 Ne5 8.Be2 Qg6 9.O-O
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All 69 lines in this opening
- Scotch Game
- Scotch Game: 3...exd4
- Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation
- Scotch Game: Mieses Variation
- Scotch Game: Mieses, 8...Ba6
- Scotch Game: Mieses, 8...Nb6
- Scotch Game: Schmidt, 6.Bd3
- Scotch Game: Tartakower Variation
- Scotch Game: Schmidt, 6.Qe2
- Scotch Game: Alekhine Gambit
- Scotch Game: Scotch Four Knights
- Scotch Game: Scotch Four Knights, 5...Bb4
- Scotch Game: Classical Variation
- Scotch Game: Classical, 5.Be3 Qf6
- Scotch Game: Classical, main line 7.Bc4
- Scotch Game: Classical, 7.Bc4 Ne5
- Scotch Game: Classical, 7.g3
- Scotch Game: Meitner / Fleissig Variation
- Scotch Game: Blackburne Attack
- Scotch Game: Gunsberg Defense
- Scotch Game: Millennium Variation
- Scotch Game: Blumenfeld Attack
- Scotch Game: Intermezzo Variation
- Scotch Game: Intermezzo, 6.Qd2
- Scotch Game: Potter Variation
- Scotch Game: Geller Variation
- Scotch Game: Romanishin Variation
- Scotch Game: Malaniuk Variation
- Scotch Game: 4...Qf6
- Scotch Game: Steinitz / Pulling Counterattack
- Scotch Game: Steinitz, 5.Nc3
- Scotch Game: Horwitz Attack
- Scotch Game: Horwitz, 5...Bb4+ 6.Bd2
- Scotch Game: Rosenthal Variation
- Scotch Game: Fraser Attack
- Scotch Game: Braune Variation
- Scotch Game: Ghulam Kassim Variation
- Scotch Game: Lolli Variation
- Scotch Game: Cochrane Variation
- Scotch Game: Napoleon Gambit
- Scotch Gambit
- Scotch Gambit: 4...Nf6
- Scotch Gambit: 4...Nf6 5.e5
- Scotch Gambit: 4...Nf6 5.O-O
- Scotch Gambit: Max Lange Attack
- Scotch Gambit: 4...Bc5
- Scotch Gambit: 4...Bc5 5.c3
- Scotch Gambit: 4...Bc5 5.O-O
- Scotch Gambit: Anderssen Counterattack
- Scotch Gambit: Vitzhum Attack
- Scotch Gambit: Cochrane-Shumov Defense
- Scotch Gambit: London Defense
- Scotch Gambit: Benima Defense
- Scotch Game: Relfsson Gambit (MacLopez)
- Scotch Game: Göring Gambit
- Scotch Game: Göring Gambit Declined
- Scotch Game: Göring Gambit Accepted
- Scotch Game: Göring, 5...Bb4
- Scotch Game: Göring, Bardeleben Variation
- Scotch Game: Göring, Double Pawn Sacrifice
- Scotch Game: Göring Double, main line
- Scotch Game: 4.Qxd4
- 5.Qxd4 Qf6 6.Qe3 b6 …
- 5...d6 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Bf4 …
- 7.fxe3 Qxb2 8.N1c3 Qb4 …
- 7.fxe3 Qh4+ 8.g3 Qxe4 …
- 7.fxe3 Qe5 8.Qd5 Qxb2 …
- 7.fxe3 Qd8 8.Qg4 g6 …
- 7.fxe3 Kd8 8.N1c3 Nge7 …