Originally posted by anthias 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 is the four knights game. Do you have any ideas to make this opening a bit more interesting or worth to play? I find it really boring as it always goes into a symettrical position...
*shock* Theres people who play e4 (and e5) without gambiting a pawn 😲
Holy smokes to the batmobile tight pants with ball cup boy someone has to alert NATO!
For more precise (better?) advice it helps to know which colour you're playing as. Never really played 1.e4 e5 as black so nooooo clue at all, but as white id do what the last guy said and play the scotch, Kasparov played it it has to be good 🙂
Originally posted by !~TONY~! Yes! Silman wrote an article on this line for his website. The point is is that it's a Halloween Attack Reversed, but white can't retreat his knight to g3 like he would like to. Really interesting. 😀
Cool. There's also something about it in the NiC publication SOS2. I sent them one of my games after that with a TN in it - they said they'd publish it in a later book of the series. Not sure if they did, or what annotation mark it got!?
If I were to play black and 3. Nc3 ... was played and I did not want the Four Knights Game I guess I would play 3. ... Bb4 with the intent to capture the c3 Knight. I think so for I have played 3. ... Nf6. I do not like the Two Knights and the Four Knights.
3...g6 gives both sides a better chance of winning and a smaller chance of a draw... according to chessgames.com where they have 164 games it scores 35.4% for white 37.8% for black (probably because it is uncommon) and 36.8% are draws. Compare this with the 4 knights game with 31.4% for white, 25.8% for black and a whopping 42.8% drawn! that must prove it to be a boring game! 😴
The four knights game (or eternal dullness)
18 Oct '06 03:18
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