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Englund Gambit

“Black’s idea is to avoid the traditional closed queen’s pawn games and create an open game with tactical chances, but at the cost of a pawn. The gambit is considered weak; Boris Avrukh writes that 1…e5 “seems to me the worst possible reply to White’s first move”.”

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