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Latvian Gambit

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5

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White to move

Legal moves
28
Games in the next 4 moves
748,188
Different positions among them
253,689
Named lines from here
24

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A sharp and risky gambit: Black answers 2. Nf3 with 2...f5. Players from Riga analysed it in the early 20th century, which gave it its name.

It is reached after 4 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5.

White is to move and has 28 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 748,188 different games. Those games reach 253,689 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.9 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 24 further lines after this position, such as Mayet Attack (3. Bc4) and Latvian Gambit Accepted, Main Line (3. Nxe5 Qf6 4. d4).

The same moves can be played in 4 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. Nf3 e5 2. e4 f5, which starts as the Zukertort Opening.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Latvian 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 748,188 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... e5King's Pawn Game
  3. 2. Nf3King's Knight Opening
  4. 2... f5Latvian Gambit

Named lines from here

Related openings

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