Nimzowitsch Defense: El Columpio Defense, El Columpio Gambit
1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e5 Ng4 4. d4 d6 5. h3 Nh6 6. e6
The Nimzowitsch Defense: El Columpio Defense, El Columpio Gambit is a chess opening classified as ECO B00, reached after 1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e5 Ng4 4. d4 d6 5. h3 Nh6 6. e6. It is a line of the Nimzowitsch Defense. Black 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: +0.54 (Stockfish, depth 27; best line 6… fxe6 7. h4 Qd7 8. Ng5 e5 9. d5)
- ECO
- B00
- Moves
- 11 plies
- FEN
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1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e5 Ng4 4. d4 d6 5. h3 Nh6 6. e6
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Master games
2 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 50%, draw 0%, Black 50%). The strongest:
- IM Rahman Mohammad Fahad (2319) – FM Martynas Limontas (2311) 0-1 · Titled Tuesday 17th Nov · 2020-11-17
- Petr Walek (2167) – Frantisek Svoboda (1725) 1-0 · 11th Highlands Open 2017 · 2017-09-23
Comes from
Nimzowitsch Defense: El Columpio Defense 1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e5 Ng4
More Nimzowitsch Defense lines (all)
- Nimzowitsch Defense (1. e4 Nc6) B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense (1… Nc6 2. d4) B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: Breyer Variation B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: Colorado Countergambit B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: Colorado Countergambit Accepted B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: Declined Variation B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: El Columpio Defense, Exchange Variation B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: El Columpio Defense, Pin Variation B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: Franco-Nimzowitsch Variation B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: French Connection B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: Hornung Gambit B00
- Nimzowitsch Defense: Kennedy Variation B00
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.