Chess Opening Theory/1. e4/1...e5/2. Nf3/2...Nc6/3. Bc4/3...Nf6/4. Ng5/4...Nd5/5. d4
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Position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Nd5 5. d4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECO code: C57-C59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent: Italian Game |
Two Knights Defence edit
5. d4 edit
White's best move 5. d4 refrains from capturing the Black knight for one turn, and instead defends their own knight with the dark-squared bishop. Black also finds themselves unable to move away their undefended knight because of its pin to the f-pawn.
The move 6. exd5 will threaten the other Black knight as well so the most Black can do is at least gain one knight in compensation with 5...h6 or sacrifice their knight for a pawn with 5...Nxd4.
Theory table edit
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Nd5 5. d4
5 | 6 | 7 | ||
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1 | d4 h6 |
exd5
hxg5 |
dxc6
... | |
2 | d4 Nxd4 |
Bxd5
Ne6 |
References edit
- Kasparov, Garry, & Keene, Raymond 1989 Batsford chess openings 2. ISBN 0-8050-3409-9.
- Nunn's Chess Openings. 1999. John Nunn (Editor), Graham Burgess, John Emms, Joe Gallagher. ISBN 1-8574-4221-0.