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Scandinavian Defense

1. e4 d5

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White to move

Legal moves
31
Games in the next 4 moves
788,468
Different positions among them
265,698
Named lines from here
47

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One of the oldest recorded openings: it appears in a game played in Valencia around 1475, among the first games of modern chess. Black challenges e4 at once with 1...d5.

It is reached after 2 moves: 1. e4 d5.

White is to move and has 31 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 788,468 different games. Those games reach 265,698 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 47 further lines after this position, such as Modern Variation (2. exd5 Nf6) and Mieses-Kotroc Variation (2. exd5 Qxd5).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Scandinavian Defense
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 788,468 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... d5Scandinavian Defense

Named lines from here

Famous games through this position

The Peruvian ImmortalCanal – NN, Budapest 1934, move 1Canal gives up both rooks and his queen and mates in 14 moves.

Related openings

FEN

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