King's Knight Opening: Normal Variation

C44

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6

How it went

18,460 ours · 74,738 masters

White wins 45% Draws 20% Black wins 35%

Continuations

11

Irish Gambit C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nxe5 Italian Game C50 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 6,681 King's Knight Opening: Konstantinopolsky C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. g3 76 King's Pawn Game: Dresden Opening C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c4 11 King's Pawn Game: Pachman Wing Gambit C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. b4 King's Pawn Game: Tayler Opening C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Be2 29 Ponziani Opening C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 180 Ruy Lopez C60 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 7,004 Scotch Game C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 2,070 Three Knights Opening C46 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 2,358 Latvian Gambit: Clam Gambit C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d3 f5 4. exf5 1

Master games

Carlsen, Magnus — So, Wesley 1/2-1/2 · 2016
Rapport, R.. — Anand, V.. 0-1 · 2022
Duda, J... — Anand V 1/2-1/2 · 2019
Kovalev, Vl — Bacrot, Etienne 0-1 · 2011
Rublevsky, Sergei — Amin, B... 1/2-1/2 · 2008

Games in Spain

Chigaev,M (2588) — Svidler,P (2723) 1/2-1/2
Pichot,A (2638) — Krysa,L (2541) 1/2-1/2
Sindarov,Javokhir (2544) — Chigaev,M (2619) 1/2-1/2
Santos Ruiz,Miguel (2591) — Jiang,Andrew (2201) 1-0
Mazurkiewicz,M (2145) — Guerra Mendez,J (2484) 0-1
Gonzalez Castillo,Jose Javier (2274) — Aswath,S (2473) 1/2-1/2
Haitin,Ilja (2321) — Garcia Ramos,Daniel (2457) 1/2-1/2
Ilamparthi,A R (2426) — Guerrero Olmos,S (2374) 0-1

This line is also written

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6
e4, e5, Nf3, Nc6