Four Knights, Vienna and Bishop's Opening
Quiet developing systems. In the Four Knights we copy with …Bb4 against 4.Bb5, take with …Bb4 against 4.d4, and punish 4.Bc4 with the fork trick 4…Nxe4!. The Vienna and Bishop's Opening often transpose into these positions or into our Italian set-ups.
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- Lesson 121 of 132
Picking up where you left off.
Six lines, two of them core:
- 4.Bb5 Bb4: symmetry and the Metger unpin (important)
- 4.d4: the Scotch Four Knights (important)
- 4.Bc4?! Nxe4! — the fork trick (core)
- Vienna Gambit: 3.f4 d5! (core)
- Vienna 3.Bc4 Nc6 4.d3 Bc5 (important)
- Bishop’s Opening 2.Bc4 Nc6 (important)
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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