Main line: 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6
The most common path at club level. Against every sixth move you play the same way: bishop to f5 first, then …e6, …Nbd7, a bishop to b4, d6 or e7, and castle. Learn the two White tricks in this chapter - Bd2 with Nd5, and Ne5 with g4 - and the rest follows naturally.
- 15 min
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- Lesson 102 of 132
Picking up where you left off.
Seven lines, four of them core:
- 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Qe2: the classical main line (core)
- 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5: the discovered-attack trick (core)
- 7.Ne5 e6 8.g4: the bishop hunt (important)
- 6.Bd2: same set-up, same tricks (core)
- 6.Ne5: the early knight jump (important)
- 6.Be2: the quiet set-up (core)
- 6.h3 and 7.Bd3: trade the bishops (deeper)
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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