ECO C58: Italian Game: Two Knights Defense
ECO C58 is part of volume C, Open Games.
The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 10 named lines under it.
The shortest is Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5.
All of them are lines of the
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense.
That position has come up in 4,532,094 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 47.5%, 3.9% were drawn and Black won 48.6%.
| Opening | Moves | Games | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 |
4.5M | 5 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Bishop Check Line | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ |
3.9M | 6 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Kieseritzky Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. d3 |
259K | 6 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 |
673K | 8 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Bogoljubow Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Qf3 |
891K | 8 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Blackburne Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Qf3 cxb5 |
60K | 8 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Colman Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Qf3 Rb8 |
90K | 8 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Paoli Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Qf3 Qc7 9. Bd3 |
3,168 | 9 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Maróczy Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. d3 h6 7. Nf3 e4 8. Qe2 Nxc4 9. dxc4 Be7 |
5,153 | 9 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Yankovich Variation | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. d3 h6 7. Nf3 e4 8. Qe2 Nxc4 9. dxc4 Bc5 10. Nfd2 |
2,381 | 10 moves |