Summary
The Four Knights Game is sound and logical; has a long, honorable pedigree as an opening; and is rarely seen these days in master- level chess.
Because White's third move, developing the second knight to c3, contains no threat, the Four Knights has long been less popular than more forcing openings such as the Ruy Lopez, the Giuoco Piano and even the Scotch Game (3. d4). However, the lack of a threat actually puts a burden on the second player to make a choice, and the wrong pick can have fatal consequences.See the full content of this document
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Four Knights, Two Wins
Thirty-year-old Russian GM Alexander Motylev recruited the Four Knights with scintillating results against Latvian-born Spanish GM Alexei Shirov at the just-concluded...
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