The knight simply goes back to c6 with an equal game. 4...Nc6 5.Nf3,Bc5 6.Nc3,d6 maybe white has a slight advantage, but no more than any regular opening.
The Reversed Van Geet
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It is easy to show equality in en opening if white makes sub optimal moves
- White can play 2. Nf3 where white either has to except normal kingpawn openings with e5 or sub optimal pirc/scandinavian
- After 2 .. e5 Nf3 is not a trick leads to the normal Scottish game. 5. Nb3 is possible but so are Be3 (mainline) and Nxc6.
So the conclusion on 1. Nc6 is that your cannot avoid normal openings if white pays any normal attention
2.Nf3 has some interesting territory:
Here's an actual game from the 2.Nf3 variation, though in fairness black only won because of white's pawn greed in the endgmae:
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Cavalierb1c3 wrote:
I recommend the book "the modernized trojan Knight, 1 Nc3" by Bruno Dieu which has just been released in 2024 allowing you to play the original lines with the advice of transpositions in the broad outlines. It is a very beautiful book with wonderful advice, playing 1 Nc3 requires work for the transpositions and is increasingly played even by the best players in the world who are always looking for playable and little analyzed positions. It is not because a book deals with a little-known opening that it is a crap book as some say on this site, before we did not play the Scottish game or the Italian game with d3, it is all a question of fashion.
You have posted the same message many times in a short period of time. Thank you for your contribution. This topic from 2013 really needed to reactivated.
My original message was more elaborate, but against forum guidelines. That's why it's short this time.
Hello! Here's yet another opening thread from me! Today we cover the reversed Van Geet and do an assessment of it. Why isn't 1.e4,Nc6 seen more often in top level play? What are these GMs afraid of? This opening is quite underrated, perhaps because space advantages are overrated: