ECO C59: Italian Game: Two Knights Defense
ECO C59 is part of volume C, Open Games.
The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 4 named lines under it.
The shortest is Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Suhle Defense:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6.
All of them are lines of the
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense.
That position has come up in 460,424 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 45.3%, 4.3% were drawn and Black won 50.4%.
| Opening | Moves | Games | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Suhle Defense | 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6 |
460K | 8 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Steinitz Variation | 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 |
57K | 9 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Göring Variation | 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 |
9,812 | 10 moves |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Knorre Variation | 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 |
473 | 12 moves |