4...d6 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.Nf3 (Göring Gambit, by transposition) 4...Bc5 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.Nf3 (Göring Gambit, by transposition) 4...Nc6 5.Bc4 and 6.Nf3 (Göring Gambit, by transposition) 4...Bb4 5.Bc4 (5.Qd4 is an independent option) Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 d6 7.Qb3 Qe7 8.Ne2 Alekhine–Pomar, clock simul Madrid 1943 Alekhine recommended that White play 4.Nxc3. This line often transposes into the Göring Gambit of the Scotch Game. There are only few lines with Black omitting ...Nc6 and/or White omitting Nf3. This move order enables White to avoid the critical main line of the Göring Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 dxc3 5.Nxc3 Bb4) by keeping open the option of meeting an early ...Bb4 by developing the to e2 rather than f3 and thus preventing Black from disrupting White's pawn structure, as Alekhine did in his game against Pomar above. Lindehn's continuation: 4.Bc4 4...d6 5.Nxc3 (also Göring Gambit, by transposition) 4...cxb2 5.Bxb2 (Danish Gambit Accepted, see diagram) 5...Bb4+ 6.Kf1 or 6.Nc3 5...d6 6.Qb3 5...d5 (Schlechter Defense) White can instead offer a second pawn with 4.Bc4. The second pawn can be safely declined by transposing into the Göring Gambit. Accepting the pawn allows White's two bishops to rake the Black after 4...cxb2 5.Bxb2. White will often follow up with Qb3 if possible, applying pressure on Black's b7- and f7-squares. Combined with White's pressure on g7, this can make it difficult for Black to develop his bishops. A similar position arises except for Black in the Ross Gambit, a variation of the Scandinavian Defence. Carl Schlechter recommended one of the most reliable defenses for Black: by returning one of the pawns with 5...d5, Black gains time to complete development. After 6.Bxd5 Nf6 (6...Bb4+ is also possible) 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 8.Qxd8 Bb4+ 9.Qd2 Bxd2+ 10.Nxd2 Re8 (Nyholm–Tartakower, Baden 1914), Black regains the queen. Most theorists evaluate this position as , but some believe that the queenside gives Black the advantage in the (Schlechter suggested 10...c5). The popularity of the Danish plummeted after Schlechter's defense was introduced as the resulting positions are not what White generally desires from a gambit opening. There have been attempts, especially by German correspondence player Ingo Firnhaber, to revive the gambit idea with 7.Nc3, but according to Karsten Müller and Martin Voigt in Danish Dynamite, this line gives insufficient compensation after 7...Nxd5 8.Nxd5 Nbd7 (8...c6 9.Nf6+) 9.Nf3 c6, since the piece sacrifice 10.0-0 is dubious on account of 10...cxd5 11.exd5 Be7 If White instead plays 6.exd5,