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Video - Ponziani Opening How to Play: This chess video on Ponziani Opening will help you learn 3 main variations of this chess opening. The video is also designed to help you develop feel of correctly playing Ponziani Opening and learn ideas, developing squares, etc.
Before you play the video, please read the following information to better understand a general picture on playing Ponziani Opening... Today this chess opening has been forgotten. It is difficult even to find sample games on Pozniani Opening at the chess master level. But...
Pozniani Opening must be good for White. If you play correctly for White, you will have at least an equal position. As with any opening, the main problem is to have idea how to play it. And now you are proposed to find the video below and see it. Maybe you will like this opening...
The video will display how to correctly play 3 main variations of Pozniani Opening: Leonhardt variation, Jaenisch Counterattack variation, and Ponziani Countergambit variation. To see the Ponziani Opening How to Play video, click the Play button below:
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To replay on the chess board and learn the Ponziani Opening variations which were shown in the above video, see them in writing below:
Variation 1: Ponziani Opening - Leonhardt variation, C44
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 d5 4.Qa4 Nf6 5.Nxe5 Bd6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.d3! 0-0 8.Be2 Re8 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bxf6 Qxf6 11.Nd2
Variation 2: Ponziani Opening - Jaenisch Counterattack variation, C44
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 Nf6 4.d4 Nxe4 5.d5 Nb8 6.Nxe5 Bc5 7.Qg4 0-0 8.Qxe4 d6 9.Bd3 f5 10.Qc4 b5! 11.Qxb5 Qe7 12.0-0 dxe5 13.Bg5!
Variation 3: Ponziani Opening - Ponziani Countergambit variation, C44
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 f5 4.d4 fxe4 5.Nxe5 Qf6 6.Ng4 Qg6 7.d5! Nd8 8.Be2 Bc5 9.0-0 Nf7
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