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The four knights game (or eternal dullness)

The four knights game (or eternal dullness)

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try the sicilian!! its much more fun both sides have chances for attacking.

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turn it to the scotch and play d4 next thats not even that weak

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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 🙂

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_knights_game

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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!?

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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.

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Originally posted by ChessJester
Or, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6
He's trying to avoid boring openings!

3...g6 might be interesting, I don't play 1...e5 though so I don't have any experience of this.

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definitely try playing the halloween gambit. one of the best gambits there is 😉

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Originally posted by lausey
That is the Halloween Gambit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Gambit

The Belgrade Gambit is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nd5 .
Sorry. My mistake. 😛

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Originally posted by SSJ4GogetaSSJ4
definitely try playing the halloween gambit. one of the best gambits there is 😉
Game 2059244

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If you copy your opponents moves you will always be a move behind.

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Originally posted by Jee
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if im not mistaken thats the chicago gambit. correct me if im wrong...
in my opinion its a bit less sound than the halloween gambit.

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Originally posted by Schumi
He's trying to avoid boring openings!
I thought it was exciting...

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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! 😴

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As white, you can try the uncommon Schultze-Muller gambit:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nxe5!? Nxe5 5. d4 Ng6 6. e5 Ng8 7. Bc4 d5 8. Bxd5 c6 9. Bb3 Be6 10. Bxe6 fxe6

Not too sound IMHO, but black should have a hard time to exploit the advantage.

Cheers