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Two Knights Defence inc. Wilkes-Barre Variation [C56-C59]

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C58: Main line Two Knights' Defense Post members on chess.com and chesspub.com have maintained that Black is equal in the main line of the Two Knights' Defense. Here in a new try by White to achieve a plus. While my Houdini has suspect ... Started 08/13/13 at 13:40:40 by sloughter « Pages 1 2 all »	16	25738	08/18/13 at 07:26:54 By: Smyslov_Fan
Komodo, Houdini 3 & GM Two Knights Defense According to Komodo, Houdini 3 running on 6 processors overnight supervised by a GM claiming "perfect analysis", with best play 2 variations of the main line of the Two Knights' Defense are equal: Her... Started 08/01/13 at 07:27:44 by sloughter	4	6609	08/01/13 at 17:53:14 By: sloughter
C58: 4.Ng5 Two Knights Defense Main line I played the following game against Houdini 3 in a blitz game. The endgame, if I am not mistaken, is a theoretical draw but worth playing on a few move. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5... Started 07/21/13 at 11:59:13 by sloughter	1	3347	07/21/13 at 13:55:13 By: Smyslov_Fan
C57: New Variations: Wilkes-Barre, 2N Defense Here is a test of the Wilkes Barre in the Two Knights' Defense (180'40 90'20 30 Game). While the general belief is that the Wilkes-Barre is unsound, practical results suggest otherwise. When a future ... Started 06/18/13 at 14:40:58 by sloughter	0	2198	06/18/13 at 14:40:57 By: sloughter
C56: Two Knights with 4.d4 observation 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.Re1 d5 7.Bxd5 Qxd5 8.Nc3 Qh5 9.Nxe4 Be6 10.Neg5, leading with best play to O-O-O 11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.Rxe6 Bd6 has been played in nine games, with a miser... Started 04/27/13 at 12:20:01 by Markovich	4	6164	05/05/13 at 21:49:07 By: Markovich
C56: Is this playable? This is from some "fun" analysis I did back in 2008. Is 5. ... Be7 playable? Download game in pgn format Started 02/22/13 at 13:22:05 by ChessFlash	12	9335	04/19/13 at 18:57:11 By: urusov
C57: Re-Fried Liver Jon Edwards in his article the “Re-Fried Liver” July 2009, Chess Life, p.32-34, covered most of the reasonable earlier alternatives in his main line. I analyzed this variation with Houdini 2 and Fritz... Started 11/03/12 at 23:00:34 by sloughter « Pages 1 2 all »	21	19318	01/15/13 at 17:10:29 By: Matemax
C57: Houdini 3 cooks the Traxler! After analyzing the Wilkes-Barre/Traxler with Houdini 3, I noticed that Houdini didn't castle out to move 24. Here is the second game I played against Houdini at tournament level to see what Houdini c... Started 01/06/13 at 14:10:54 by sloughter	6	6649	01/07/13 at 22:55:33 By: sloughter
C58: 2 Knights Defense 4.Ng5 ... 8.Bd3 h6 One of the ideas in the 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5ch c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Bd3 line is 8…h6 9.Ne4 Nd5 10.Be2! Be7 (Qb6 11.O-O Be7 12.d3 O-O 13.Nbd2 f5 14.Nc3 Be6 15.Nb3 Nb7 16.Bf3 +/=) 11.d3! (It is importa... Started 12/23/12 at 23:50:04 by sloughter	1	3321	12/24/12 at 04:58:08 By: Smyslov_Fan
C58: Two Knights' Defense 4.Ng5---8.Bd3 Bc5 What makes the 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5ch c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Bd3!? variation at the class level so important is how many strong players got it wrong. In Gunsberg-Chigorin, Havana, 1890 and Gunsberg-Las... Started 12/21/12 at 12:27:59 by sloughter	3	4911	12/22/12 at 18:21:41 By: sloughter
C58: New idea in the Two Knights 4.Ng5 and 8.Bd3 The line in which I believe to have a strong idea is : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Bd3 Nd5 9.Nf3 Bd6 10.0-0 (Now 10...Nf4 gave black good play fo... Started 09/12/11 at 18:05:44 by Antigoon « Pages 1 2 all »	26	29798	11/26/12 at 17:00:12 By: sloughter
C57: WILKES-BARRE/TRAXLER Does anyone know which line IM Lawrence Trent is recommending in his Chessbase DVD? I know it is 5.Bxf7+ and 6.Bd5 but is his analysis really as convincing as he makes out? Cheers, BleepBleep Started 04/21/12 at 16:19:52 by BleepBleep	6	6414	11/04/12 at 21:47:15 By: Jupp53
C59: The Steinitz Variation Sorry if there's already a thread on this, but I was wondering why Black shouldn't play 9...Bxh3 after 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. Is it becaus... Started 09/26/12 at 09:21:48 by TN	3	3409	09/26/12 at 14:36:55 By: Vass
C58: 2 Knights' 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5-8.Qf3 Qc7 This is a trivial variation but for the sake of completeness it is presented. When looking at the 8.Qf3 h6 line I thought that Ba4 could only be played in that variation. It also works here: 4.Ng... Started 08/19/12 at 20:01:21 by sloughter	1	2099	08/19/12 at 20:43:18 By: Smyslov_Fan
C58: Main line Two Knights' Defense Post members in the Two Knights Defense maintain that after 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5ch c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Qf3 Be7 gives Black easy equality, but after 8...Be7 9.Be2! O-O 10.h4!! & suddenly Black has pr... Started 08/01/11 at 00:30:40 by sloughter « Pages 1 2 all »	16	18458	11/30/11 at 21:33:47 By: PANFR
C56-C59: Aggressive white play against 2 Knights Hello chessfriends! I want to play the Italian game with white against 1. ...e5. Against 3. ...Bc5 I want to play the Evans Gambit, but I do not know how to play against the Two Knights Defe... Started 06/02/11 at 18:55:05 by cynima « Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 all »	79	67727	10/07/11 at 06:28:26 By: ghenghisclown
C56: Early deviation before Max Lange Some quick questions on the following line 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. O-O Nxe4 What is this called? What should white play here? How is 5...Nxe4 viewed? Thanks Started 01/31/11 at 08:40:25 by Highfive	10	10180	07/23/11 at 01:43:54 By: Smyslov_Fan
C57-C59: What to do against 4.Ng5 in 2 knights? After having tried several options I'm still not sure what to do against 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5. My preference has been the Fritz variation: 4. ... d5 5.ed5: Nd4 6.c3 b5 7.Bf1 Nd5: bu... Started 02/14/11 at 14:50:58 by NeverGiveUp « Pages 1 2 ... 6 7 8 all »	116	103631	05/23/11 at 08:15:53 By: NeverGiveUp
C57-C59: The Fried Liver Attack Forgive me if I've missed the thread already existing, but I couldn't find one on this. So, here it is. I've just finished posting on the Yahoo! chess message boards about a question on this open... Started 12/24/03 at 06:45:12 by CraigEvans « Pages 1 2 3 all »	42	47179	04/20/11 at 15:12:05 By: Master Om
Summation of opening theory in the Fritz Summation of Fritz theory---1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nd4 6.c3 b5 7.Bf1 Nxd5 8.Ne4 1)...8.Qh4? 2)...Ne6! 8...Qh4 9.Ng3 Bg4 10.f3 e4 11.cxd4 Bd6 12.Qe2! (The Muir Variation... Started 03/07/11 at 19:40:59 by sloughter	13	12337	03/16/11 at 22:41:25 By: sloughter

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