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The Italian Four Knights - Attack Without Risk

Looking for an active response to 1...e5, but you would rather not learn endless theory or play dubious gambits? Then the Italian Four Knights is the ideal choice. It combines the solid foundation of classical openings like the Ruy Lopez or the Italian Game with an active, initiative-driven style of play.

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Bahne Fuhrmann presents a practical repertoire built on clear plans, active piece play, and lasting pressure. Instead of memorizing variations, you will get to know the typical structures and attacking ideas that are easy to apply at the board. Whether with the aggressive Bg5 systems, energetic kingside attacks using g4 and g5, or dynamic play in the center, White seizes the initiative early and keeps the opponent under constant pressure.

You will learn:
A complete repertoire against 1...e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
Active attacking plans with a manageable amount of theory
Dangerous kingside attacks Typical middlegame ideas and structures Model games to deepen the most important concepts

Ideal for ambitious club players who want to play active chess, surprise their opponents, and score with understanding rather than rote memorization. Solid enough for tournament games. Dangerous enough to play for a win at any time.

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This is what is delivered:
  • Fritztrainer App for Windows and Mac
  • Available as download or on DVD
  • Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
  • Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
  • Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
  • Sample games as a ChessBase database.
  • New: many Fritztrainer now also available as stream in the ChessBase video portal!
That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:
  • Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
  • Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
  • Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
  • Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
  • Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
  • Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.
Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!
  • The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
  • Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
  • Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
  • Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
  • Replay training
  • LiveBook active
  • All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
  • Assisted Analysis
  • Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)

Sample video

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Part
  • 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 Nf6 5.Nc3
  • 5...d6 without 6...h6
  • 5...d6 with 6...h6 - Sidelines
  • 5...d6 with 6...h6 - 9...Ne7
  • 5...d6 with 6...h6 - 10...exd4
  • 5...d6 with 6...h6 - 10...La7
  • 5...h6 early deviations
  • 5...h6 with a6 and d6
  • 5...a6 and 0-0
  • Model Games
  • Model Game 1: Abasov - Van den Doel
  • Model Game 2: Lupulescu - Georgiev
  • Model Game 3: Kocharin - Adam
  • Practice Repertoire
  • 5...d6 without h6
  • 5...d6 with h6 - Sidelines
  • 5...d6 with h6 - 9.Ne7
  • 5...d6 with h6 - 10...exd4
  • 5...d6 with h6 - 10...Ba7
  • 5...h6 until move 7
  • 5...h6 from 8.Be3
  • 5...a6/0-0
  • Key Moves
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Four Knights Game

Compared to the advice often given to beginners “develop the knights before the bishops” the Four Knights Game must actually look like the ideal opening. It was also very popular at the start of the 20th century, but then it lost many of its adherents on account of Rubinstein’s gambit continuation 4.Bb5 Nd4. Interest in it was not re-awakened until the 1990s when the English grandmasters John Nunn and Nigel Short took up the opening.

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