White's second-move alternatives
Not everyone plays 2.d4. Against 2.Nc3 and 3.Nf3 (the Two Knights) pin with …Bg4 and trade on f3; against 2.c4 recapture on d5 with the knight and reach a Panov-type position; against the King's Indian set-up with 2.d3, take the centre with …d5 and …e5. 2.Nf3 usually transposes to something you already know.
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- Lesson 113 of 132
Picking up where you left off.
Seven lines, three of them core:
- Two Knights: 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 e6 6.d3 (core)
- Two Knights: 6.d4 Nf6 7.Bd3 dxe4 (important)
- 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Bg4: Two Knights again (important)
- 2.Nf3 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.d4 e6: into the Advance (deeper)
- 2.c4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.cxd5 Nf6 (core)
- 2.c4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.d4: the Panov (deeper)
- 2.d3: King’s Indian set-up, take the centre (core)
Learn takes up to five new lines at a time, core lines first. When the chapter is learned, practise it from memory.
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