English Opening: Romanishin Gambit

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 a6 4. Bg2 b5

The English Opening: Romanishin Gambit is a chess opening classified as ECO A13, reached after 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 a6 4. Bg2 b5. It is a line of the English Opening. White is to move.

This exact move order didn't appear in our sample of 12.6 million Lichess games: it's a rare line.

Engine evaluation: +0.35 (Stockfish, depth 42; best line 5. b3 Bb7 6. Nc3 d5 7. cxb5 d4)

ECO: A13
Moves: 8 plies
FEN: rnbqkb1r/2pp1ppp/p3pn2/1p6/2P5/5NP1/PP1PPPBP/RNBQK2R w KQkq - 0 5
PGN: 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 a6 4. Bg2 b5

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Master games

72 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 33%, draw 34%, Black 33%). The strongest:

GM Pa Iniyan (2573) – GM Andrey Esipenko (2689) 0-1 · Titled Tue 17th Jun Early · 2025-06-17
GM Evgeny Tomashevsky (2696) – GM Maxim Turov (2565) 1/2-1/2 · ch-RUS Blitz 2022 · 2022-10-14
GM Aleksandr Shimanov (2639) – GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (2604) 1-0 · Nakhchivan Open A 2013 · 2013-05-01
GM Aleksandr Lenderman (2623) – GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (2570) 1/2-1/2 · 43rd Annual World Open · 2015-07-05
GM Sipke Ernst (2556) – GM Alexander Ipatov (2587) 1/2-1/2 · 75th Tata Steel GpB · 2013-01-26

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Comes from

English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, King's Knight Variation 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3

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Opening names and moves from the Lichess openings dataset; statistics from the Lichess open database, 2026-09 (CC0), sample of 12.6 million games, bots excluded; evaluations from Lichess cloud analysis (all CC0). Master games from The Week in Chess #920–#1664 by Mark Crowther, used with permission.