Chess Openings, Scotch gambit (C44)

CHESS OPENINGS

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Annotated chess games with this chess opening:

chess opening #591

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Walking The Plank II: Achillies Heel
escrimador (1664) vs. hansdevries (1692)

Annotated by escrimador (1956): WALKING THE PLANK II: ACHILLIES HEEL escrimador vs. hansdevries The Scotch Gambit Hollywood sequels rarely outperform the original, and here I do not pretend to overshadow the Lasker-Thomas brilliancy of 1911. However, this GameKnot miniature was played in November 2005 and demonstrates the classic sacrifice on f7, Black's "Achillies Heel", followed by the proverbial "king walk", where mate or…

chess opening #1768

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Challenge from bakerbaker
bakerbaker (1581) vs. miromcduck (1584)

Annotated by bakerbaker (1200): The Scotch opening. This isn't the main variation of the Scotch, but I don't want to waste time taking Black's d4 pawn (for piece developing purposes) Black is overly concerned about me playing Ng5. I still don't take Black's pawn, because if he tries to hold onto it, I have a neat tactic, which will win back the pawn and retain my lead in development. Black thinks he has won a pawn, but I…