Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Suhle Defense

C59

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6

How it went

32 ours · 213 masters

White wins 38% Draws 13% Black wins 49%

Continuations

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Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Steinitz Variation C59 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6 9. Nh3 12 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Göring Variation C59 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6 9. Nf3 e4 10. Ne5 Qc7 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Knorre Variation C59 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6 9. Nf3 e4 10. Ne5 Bd6 11. d4 Qc7 12. Bd2

Master games

Charbonneau, Pascal — Ivanchuk, Vasyl 1/2-1/2 · 2007
Zeng, Chongsheng — Harikrishna, Pentala 0-1 · 2018
Liu, Qingnan — Yu, Yangyi 1/2-1/2 · 2015
Umansky, Mikhail — Timmerman, Gert 1/2-1/2 · 2005
Ninov, Nikolai — Bacrot, Etienne 1/2-1/2 · 2008

Games in Spain

Munoz Pantoja,M (2367) — Petrosyan,M (2609) 0-1
Garcia Garcia,A (2140) — Kravtsiv,M (2598) 0-1
Garcia Garcia,A (2139) — Costachi,M (2470) 0-1
Garcia Garcia,A (2140) — Ambartsumova,K (2405) 1-0
Loiacono,Leonardo (2316) — Lianes Garcia,Marcos (2398) 1/2-1/2
Munoz Pantoja,M (2359) — Granados Gomez,M (2356) 0-1
Garcia Garcia,A (2170) — Dubnevych,Maksym (2350) 0-1
Dahlgren,James Allen (1824) — Mikheev,S (2311) 1-0

This line is also written

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Be2 h6
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 Ng5 d5 5 exd5 Na5 6 Bb5+ c6 7 dxc6 bxc6 8 Be2 h6
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Be2 h6
e4, e5, Nf3, Nc6, Bc4, Nf6, Ng5, d5, exd5, Na5, Bb5+, c6, dxc6, bxc6, Be2, h6