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Scotch Game:Classical Variation

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5

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White to move

Legal moves
42
Games in the next 4 moves
2,068,701
Different positions among them
666,161
Named lines from here
10

See it on the mapOn the opening map

It is reached after 8 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5. It is a line of the Scotch Game.

White is to move and has 42 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 2,068,701 different games. Those games reach 666,161 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.1 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 10 further lines after this position, such as Potter Variation (5. Nb3) and Blackburne Attack (5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Qd2).

The same moves can be played in 30 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. Nf3 e5 2. e4 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5, which starts as the Zukertort Opening.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Scotch Game: Classical Variation
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 2,068,701 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... e5King's Pawn Game
  3. 2. Nf3King's Knight Opening
  4. 2... Nc6King's Knight Opening: Normal Variation
  5. 3. d4Scotch Game
  6. 3... exd4Scotch Game
  7. 4. Nxd4Scotch Game
  8. 4... Bc5Scotch Game: Classical Variation

Named lines from here

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