Scotch Game

chess opening 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4
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Scotch Game

Summary

Scotch Game is a chess opening[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of chess_opening entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (383 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Scotch Game is credited with the discovery of Ercole del Rio[3].
  • Scotch Game's video is recorded as Scotch game.gif[4].
  • Scotch Game's instance of is recorded as chess opening[5].
  • Scotland is named after Scotch Game[6].
  • Scotch Game's subclass of is recorded as King's Knight Opening[7].
  • Scotch Game's part of is recorded as chess terminology[8].
  • Scotch Game's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1750-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Scotch Game's sport is recorded as chess[10].
  • Scotch Game's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04p1z1[11].
  • Scotch Game's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/scotch-game[12].
  • Scotch Game's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00447597n[13].
  • Scotch Game's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121srfy0[14].
  • Scotch Game's Portable Game Notation is recorded as e4 e5[15].
  • Scotch Game's Portable Game Notation is recorded as Nf3 Nc6[16].
  • Scotch Game's Portable Game Notation is recorded as d4[17].
  • Scotch Game's position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation is recorded as r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/2n5/4p3/3PP3/5N2/PPP2PPP/RNBQKB1R b KQkq - 0 3[18].
  • Scotch Game's ECO code is recorded as C44–C45[19].

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Works and Contributions

Scotch Game is credited with the discovery of Ercole del Rio[3].

Why It Matters

Scotch Game ranks in the top 8% of chess_opening entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (383 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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