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Originally posted by USArmyParatrooper
America gets no love 🙁
That wiki list shows an American gambit in the Dutch defense.

You could always invent a new opening and call it the USA attack/defense/gambit.
Here's an easy way: create a position,any position will do,claim you see the stars and stripes in it,or Lincoln's face or whatever,and you have the USA opening.

It worked for the sicilian dragon 😉

toet.

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1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nf6 was tried a few times by Marshall and was therefore known as the American Defence

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The Manhattan variation in the QGD.