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These gambits may be classed under what are, in common phrase, termed "open" or "close" games; an open game being where the pieces are brought out into more immediate engagement, a close game where the pawns interlock, and the pieces can less easily issue to the attack. An instance of the former may be found in the Allgaier, of the latter in Philidor's Defence.
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