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  1. Chess Codex
  2. King's Pawn Game C20
  3. King's Knight Opening C40
  4. Normal Variation C44
  5. Italian Game C50
  6. Two Knights Defense C55
  7. Knight Attack C57
  8. Normal Variation C57
  9. Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense C58
  10. Bishop Check Line C58 you are here
C58

Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Bishop Check Line

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Overview

Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Bishop Check Line is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C58.

The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.

It begins with 11 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ to reach the canonical position.

It is a variation of Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.

It branches into 2 notable variations — Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Bogoljubow Variation.

Together the deeper variations number 9 across the full subtree.

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ECO code
C58
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
11
Parent
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense
Direct variations
2
Total in subtree
9

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Variations (2)

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Sister lines that share the same parent Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense:

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