He is a keen Scotch game player, having only lost 3 out of 20 professional games with it as white.

Murray, a rum take you have on the Scotch game, indeed!

White can transpose to the Scotch Game with 3.

The thrust with 6 e5 converts the sleepy Scotch Game into an exciting experience.

Nxd4 would transpose into a variation of the Scotch Game that gives White a spatial advantage.

His name is attached to the Göring Gambit in the Scotch Game (1.

This line often transposes into the Göring Gambit of the Scotch Game.

There is also a line in the Scotch Game named The Mieses Variation (1.

Bb5 in the Scotch Game is associated with Paulsen's name, as the Paulsen Attack: 1.

The Classical Variation of the Scotch Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves:

But Karjakin has a secret: he is eminently ready for the Scotch Game that he transposes into after 3 Nf3.

The Scotch Game, appearing after 4 Nd4, quickly takes over the pawn center, but the classical opinion has been that it fails to suppress quick black development.

The extensively analyzed Max Lange can also arise from the Giuoco Piano or Scotch Game.

After the last world championship match, in which Gary Kasparov used the Scotch Game twice against Karpov, this opening is acquiring popularity.

In opening the center so early with 3 d4 ed 4 Nd4, the Scotch Game has been criticized for reducing tension, but the present encounter makes that seem ridiculous.

Play can potentially transpose to other openings, most likely the Ponziani Opening or the Göring Gambit in the Scotch Game.

Used only for some of the oldest openings, for example Scotch Game, Vienna Game, and Four Knights Game.

The Scotch Game was rejected long ago because its signature move, 3 d4, while knocking out the black bastion at e5, opens the board for free play for the black pieces.

He could not get any advantage with a Ruy Lopez in the first one, nor could he get anything worthwhile with a Scotch Game in Game 3.

Black can safely transpose to the Scotch Game, Petrov's Defense or the Philidor Defense, or play a line recommended by Alekhine, 3...Bc5 4.

The Black counterattack in the centre also avoids the Ruy Lopez, Giuoco Piano (and other lines of the Italian Game), and the Scotch Game.

She was obviously conversant with this place, and knew where to place each hoof, as a child knew where to jump amid the squares of a hop- scotch game, proficient from long practice.

Fischer had pencilled in his own analyses of the Scotch Game, Giuoco Piano, Evans Gambit, Bishop's Gambit, Danish Gambit, and other openings.

It was Kasparov himself who singlehandedly brought the Scotch Game to the fore in the 14th encounter of his fifth world championship match with Anatoly Karpov in Lyons, France, in 1990.

Ercole del Rio, in his 1750 treatise Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni pratiche d'anonimo Autore Modenese ("On the game of Chess, practical Observations by an anonymous Modenese Author"), was the first author to mention what is now called the Scotch Game.