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King's Knight Opening: 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 King's Knight Opening: Normal Variation

The Normal Variation of the King's Knight Opening is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6, Black's usual reply to 2.Nf3. Play Black's moves of the line from memory — 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 — and the trainer plays White's replies; "Play the other side" turns it around.

"Drill all" adds the 299 named lines that continue it, such as Italian Game, Ruy Lopez, Scotch Game, Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Three Knights Opening, Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Four Knights Game.

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