ECO C57: Italian Game: Two Knights Defense
ECO C57 is part of volume C, Open Games.
The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 17 named lines under it.
The shortest is Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Knight Attack:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5.
All of them are lines of the
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense.
That position has come up in 10,100,916 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 50.3%, 3.6% were drawn and Black won 46.1%.
| Opening | Moves | Games | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Knight Attack | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 |
10.1M | 4 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Knight Attack, Normal Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 |
8.1M | 4 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Ponziani-Steinitz Gambit | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Nxe4 |
449K | 4 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Counterattack | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 |
1.3M | 4 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Counterattack, Bishop Sacrifice Line | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 5. Bxf7+ |
535K | 5 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Counterattack, Knight Sacrifice Line | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 5. Nxf7 |
631K | 5 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Fritz Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nd4 |
937K | 5 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Kloss Gambit | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nb4 |
19K | 5 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Ulvestad Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 |
577K | 5 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Fried Liver Attack | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7 |
1.3M | 6 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Lolli Attack | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. d4 |
102K | 6 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Variation, Trencianske-Teplice Gambit | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 5. Bxf7+ Ke7 6. d4 |
2,234 | 6 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Pincus Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. d4 Bb4+ |
1,801 | 6 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Counterattack, King March Line | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 5. Nxf7 Bxf2+ 6. Kxf2 Nxe4+ 7. Ke3 |
61K | 7 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Ulvestad Variation, Kurkin Gambit | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bf1 h6 7. Nxf7 |
1,886 | 7 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Fritz, Gruber Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nd4 6. c3 b5 7. Bf1 Nxd5 8. Ne4 |
7,805 | 8 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Fegatello Attack, Leonhardt Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke6 8. Nc3 Nb4 9. Qe4 c6 10. a3 Na6 11. d4 Nc7 |
1,431 | 11 moves |