A40Opening

Englund Gambit

1. d4 e5

White to move

Legal moves: 29
Games in the next 4 moves: 809,643
Different positions among them: 275,497
Named lines from here: 15

Named after the Swedish player Fritz Englund. 1...e5 gives a pawn and sets a famous trap: 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Qe7 4. Bf4? Qb4+ 5. Bd2 Qxb2 6. Bc3? Bb4 7. Qd2 Bxc3 8. Qxc3 Qc1#.

It is reached after 2 moves: 1. d4 e5.

White is to move and has 29 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 809,643 different games. Those games reach 275,497 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.9 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 15 further lines after this position, such as Englund Gambit Declined, Reversed Alekhine (2. Nf3) and Englund Gambit Declined (2. d5).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Englund Gambit — 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 809,643 games.

Move by move

1. d4Queen's Pawn Game
1... e5Englund Gambit

Named lines from here

Englund Gambit Declined, Reversed AlekhineA402. Nf3
Englund Gambit DeclinedA402. d5
Main LineA402. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Qe7
Englund Gambit Declined, Reversed FrenchA402. e3
Hartlaub-Charlick GambitA402. dxe5 d6
Mosquito GambitA402. dxe5 Qh4
Soller GambitA402. dxe5 f6
Felbecker GambitA402. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bc5
Soller Gambit DeferredA402. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 f6
Zilbermints GambitA402. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Nge7

Related openings

Queen's Pawn GameA401. d4
Queen's GambitD061. d4 d5 2. c4
Indian DefenseA451. d4 Nf6
Benoni Defense: Old BenoniA431. d4 c5
Old Indian DefenseA411. d4 d6 2. c4
Dutch DefenseA801. d4 f5
Queen's Pawn Game: London SystemD021. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4
Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London SystemD001. d4 d5 2. Bf4
Rapport-Jobava SystemD011. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bf4
Queen's Pawn Game: Colle SystemD041. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3

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