Bologan: The Popular Italian the big greek Moving the knight to e2

Moving the knight to e2 and castle short was revolutionary at the time

he resists the temptation of finding convenient wins for White

Many aspiring chess masters and grandmasters have studied it and have praised Nimzowitsch's work

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Bologan: The Popular Italian the big greek Moving the knight to e2Children starting out in chess are usually taught to play 1. e4, and the first checkmate we see is after Bc4, Qh5 and Qxf7#. It sometimes seems today that chess theory is going back to its roots, when 3. Bc4 was much more popular than 3. Bb5. Today, top tournaments are full of Italian games, and it turns out that Black has much more trouble getting equalization than in some variations of the Marshall Gambit or the Berlin Defence in the Spanish. The