C22

Center Game: Normal Variation trainer

Type a move and press Enter: e4, Nf3, O-O, or from and to squares like g1f3 (e7e8q to promote). The board is also played with the mouse.

Practise the Center Game: Normal Variation

Play Black's moves of the line from memory — 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 — and the trainer plays White's replies; "Play the other side" turns it around.

"Drill all" adds the 6 named lines that continue it, such as Center Game: Paulsen Attack Variation, Center Game: Berger Variation, Center Game: Hall Variation, Center Game: Charousek Variation, Center Game: l'Hermet Variation, Center Game: Kupreichik Variation.

Read about the line, its statistics on Lichess and Stockfish's evaluation on the Center Game: Normal Variation page, or pick another opening in the opening trainer.