Just be hip on the Giuoco Piano and Two Knights in case of 2...Nc6.
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Buy the book "Beating 1, e4, e5" by John Emms. It will teach you the Bishop's opening.
pfren wrote:
Black is already fine after 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 c6!
See the game Carlsen- Caruana from last year's Sinquefield Cup.
But then again, Black may not have done his homework:
I think that Black's only fully satisfactory move is 7...a5! (employed by Rodstein, as well as in a few Correspondence games), which Humpy did not play.
That is not the carlsen-carauna game sir.
Note 2...Nf6 requires Black to know something about the Urusov (3.d4) as well as 3.d3.
3.Nf3 Nxe4 and 3.Nc3 Nxe4 are both perfectly fine for Black. 3.Qe2 is another unique line but it is relatively rare as it does not promise anything against standard development (...Nc6..Bc5..d6 etc.)
Ok. Thanks for the extensive comments. I throughout that in many games white plays the most natural move Nf6 I could focus on the ponziani gambit (d4). This should not easily transpose in another opening line. Or am I wrong? Otherwise I'll stick to further diving into the Ruy Lopez. Thanks.
Fiveofswords wrote:
well its been my main opening for a while...yes i have a database but you should understand the bishop's opening is highly transpositional. You might end up in a vienna, you might end up in a 2 knights, you might end up in a strange anti marshall ruy sort of position, scotch gambit, etc etc. SO you will have to understand a massive variety of positions pretty well. 2 Bc4 does not restrict black very much. If you have extensive knowledge this can actually work for you because theres some natural continuations for black which are actually quite bad and you could trick him into it...but you have to know why its bad. For this reason i would suggest you play the more concrete openings first until you get a feel for them...italian and vienna especially.
One thing you will NOT end up in however is a petroff, which is probably the greatest reason strong players sometimes play it.
I'm a 1500 player that wants to start using/exploring the Bishop opening. I've just red Silman's latest Q&A where he sugests collecting a database with good games with the Bishop opening. Is any of you guys in the possession of such a database? Please let me know!