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Scandinavian Defense:Main Line

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5

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White to move

Legal moves
32
Games in the next 4 moves
1,376,365
Different positions among them
434,637
Named lines from here
9

See it on the mapOn the opening map

It is reached after 6 moves: 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5. It is a line of the Scandinavian Defense.

White is to move and has 32 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,376,365 different games. Those games reach 434,637 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.2 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 9 further lines after this position, such as Anderssen Counterattack (4. d4 e5) and Mieses Variation (4. d4 Nf6).

No other order of these moves reaches this position: each move depends on the one before.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Scandinavian Defense: Main Line
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 1,376,365 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... d5Scandinavian Defense
  3. 2. exd5—
  4. 2... Qxd5Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotroc Variation
  5. 3. Nc3—
  6. 3... Qa5Scandinavian Defense: Main Line

Named lines from here

Famous games through this position

The Peruvian ImmortalCanal – NN, Budapest 1934, move 3Canal gives up both rooks and his queen and mates in 14 moves.

Related openings

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