Chess opening
Scotch Game: Classical VariationC45
The Scotch Game: Classical Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code C45. It is reached after the moves:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
Comes from
Main continuations
- Scotch Game: Potter Variation (C45)
- Scotch Game: Classical Variation, Intermezzo Variation (C45)
- Scotch Game: Blumenfeld Attack (C45)
- Scotch Game: Classical Variation, Millennium Variation (C45)
- Scotch Game: Classical Variation, Blackburne Attack (C45)
- Scotch Game: Meitner Variation (C45)
- Scotch Game: Paulsen Attack (C45)
Related lines in the Scotch Game
- Scotch Game (C44)
- Scotch Game (C44)
- Scotch Game: Benima Defense (C44)
- Scotch Game: Cochrane Variation (C44)
- Scotch Game: Cochrane-Shumov Defense (C44)
- Scotch Game: Göring Gambit (C44)
- Scotch Game: Göring Gambit, Bardeleben Variation (C44)
- Scotch Game: Göring Gambit, Double Pawn Sacrifice (C44)
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