Scandinavian Defense: Main Line

B01

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

How it went

903 ours · 1,716 masters

White wins 42% Draws 17% Black wins 41%

Continuations

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Scandinavian Defense: Main Line, Leonhardt Gambit B01 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. b4 28 Scandinavian Defense: Anderssen Counterattack B01 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 e5 5 Scandinavian Defense: Main Line, Mieses Variation B01 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 488

Master games

Caruana, Fabiano — Carlsen, Magnus 1/2-1/2 · 2015
Caruana, Fabiano — Nakamura, Hikaru 1/2-1/2 · 2015
Anand V — Nakamura, Hikaru 1/2-1/2 · 2013
Grischuk, Alexander — Fressinet, Laurent 1-0 · 2013
Karjakin, Sergey — Nakamura, Hikaru 0-1 · 2013

Games in Spain

Ibarra Jerez,JC (2567) — Nakamura,Hi (2736) 0-1
Vallejo Pons,F (2694) — Shimanov,A (2587) 0-1
Chigaev,M (2588) — Esipenko,Andrey (2682) 1-0
Urbina Perez,J (2248) — Kovalenko,I (2674) 0-1
Anton Guijarro,D (2670) — Tristan,L (2530) 0-1
Movsesian,S (2647) — Munoz Pantoja,M (2462) 0-1
Chigaev,M (2641) — Reprintsev,A (2350) 1-0
Kamsky,G (2616) — Baches Garcia,G (2321) 1-0

This line is also written

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