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King's Pawn Game (C20)
1 e4 e5

Number of games in database: 285
Years covered: 1560 to 2009
Overall record:
   White wins 39.3%
   Black wins 39.6%
   Draws 21.1%

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PRACTITIONERS
With the White Pieces With the Black Pieces
Semion Alapin  24 games
Nicholas MacLeod  16 games
Somacarana  12 games
John Cochrane  14 games
NN  7 games
Mikhail Chigorin  5 games
NOTABLE GAMES [what is this?]
White Wins Black Wins
Charousek vs Englander, 1894
Morphy vs A Bottin, 1858
Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri, 1560
Napoleon Bonaparte vs The Turk, 1809
Y Rusakov vs Verlinsky, 1947
Adow vs Borissow, 1889
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 page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 285  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri 1-08 1560 RomeC20 King's Pawn Game
2. A Salvio vs NN 1-012 1634 StudyC20 King's Pawn Game
3. Harrowby vs T Bowdler 0-154 1788 LondonC20 King's Pawn Game
4. NN vs F Von Mauvillon 1-047 1804 CasualC20 King's Pawn Game
5. Napoleon Bonaparte vs The Turk 0-124 1809 SchoenbrunnC20 King's Pawn Game
6. Mauvillon vs NN 1-045 1825 corrC20 King's Pawn Game
7. Kieseritzky vs Boncourt 0-130 1839 Match?C20 King's Pawn Game
8. Cochrane vs Staunton  0-136 1842 London m2C20 King's Pawn Game
9. Morphy vs NN 1-019 1848 New OrleansC20 King's Pawn Game
10. Alkmaar vs Winkel ½-½45 1852 City MatchC20 King's Pawn Game
11. Rives vs Staunton  0-119 1853 Brussels m1C20 King's Pawn Game
12. Cochrane vs Mohishunder  1-045 1854 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
13. Cochrane vs Mohishunder  1-020 1854 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
14. Cochrane vs Mohishunder  1-028 1854 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
15. Cochrane vs Mohishunder  ½-½49 1855 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
16. Somacarana vs Cochrane  0-141 1856 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
17. Somacarana vs Cochrane  0-149 1856 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
18. Somacarana vs Cochrane  ½-½68 1856 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
19. Somacarana vs Cochrane  1-038 1856 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
20. Somacarana vs Cochrane  0-146 1856 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
21. A Meek vs W Fuller 1-026 1857 New YorkC20 King's Pawn Game
22. N Marache vs B Raphael  ½-½39 1857 1st American Chess CongressC20 King's Pawn Game
23. Mohishunder vs Cochrane  ½-½22 1857 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
24. Mohishunder vs Cochrane  0-133 1857 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
25. Somacarana vs Cochrane  0-144 1857 CalcuttaC20 King's Pawn Game
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May-09-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: <rochade18><you can beat anyone who plays Qh5>. Even after Nakamura took this opening into his repertoir? (in blitz he plays it in almost every game..)
Aug-05-05   duu: I think that 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 is a underestimated opening. It gives a level game, if black knows what to play, but isn't chess like that?

I like the positions after, let's say

1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4. Qf3 Nf6 5.Ne2

Aug-30-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 f5!? 5.exf5 Nd4 6.Qe4 d6. How is the line going on?
Aug-30-05   Reegan Milne: <swapmeet> The queen's Pawn Counter Gambit,( or elephant Gambit) is simply a bad way to lose a pawn since after 3 exd5, black has no good way to keep the material balance, 3...Qxd5 4. Nc3 cost black too mcuh time while 3... e4 4.Qe2 doesnt work ( as you are discovering). The best hope, if any ,is 3....Bd6 aiming to mobilize the kingside pawn majority. English FM Johatham Rogers and German player and publisher stefan Bucker have analysed it extensively and are probly your best bet for practical examples of this idea.
Aug-31-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: 6...Qf6 I mean
Oct-20-05   Averageguy: What do you kibitzers suggest that I play as white after 2.e5? I am a tactician, and I play mostly against 1500-1800 players, so what opening seems appropriate?
Oct-20-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  refutor: you mean 1.e4 e5? why not play the scotch or the two knights? (2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4, 3.Bc4 respectively). open lines, development etc.
Oct-20-05   Averageguy: Hm, I might give the scotch gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3) a try, but the italian often allows players as black to equalize and sometimes get the initiative, I play the black side Of the two knights defense and I often win due to superior initiative. I will ask my club champ who is rated at 1980-2000. Thanks for the advice.
Oct-20-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  refutor: good way to get initiative v. two knights is 4.d4. the play is closer to the scotch and avoids all the theoretical ilnes of 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ etc. incidentally, a line to try v. the two knights is bogoljubow's line 6. ...c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Qf3


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Bogoljubov vs Euwe, 1941

Oct-20-05   e4Newman: wow, that's some fancy kibitzing refutor
Oct-20-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  who: yeah - how do you do that?
Oct-20-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  refutor: lol go to the kibitzer's cafe and look back at the last couple of days...if you enter the FEN of a position it will bring the position up
Oct-20-05   Averageguy: <refutor> You might have got me wrong, I said that I played the black side of the two knights defense, not the white side.
Oct-20-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  refutor: but i said if you wanted to try it as white and avoid the main lines that you claimed you got the initiative with as black. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 and the bogo line as above
Oct-20-05   Averageguy: Thanks, I think I understand now.
Feb-07-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Knight13: Is the opening 1. e4 e5 2. Bb5 bad?
Feb-07-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  who: Presumably after 1.e4 e5 2.Bb5 c6 gives black the initiative.
Feb-19-07   southpawjinx: Here is another game I won with black. If there was a better way to play this please let me know!! [Event "www.ChessWorld.net server game"]
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net "]
[Date "2007.1.26"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "JimDog"]
[Black "darthplutonius"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Termination "White resigned"]
[WhiteElo "1403"]
[BlackElo "1893"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2007.2.7"]
[ECO "C20"]
[Board "3320189"]

1.e4 e5 2.c3 Nf6 3.g4 d6 4.Bc4 Nxg4 5.Qf3 Qf6 6.Qxf6 Nxf6 7.f3 Be7 8.Na3 O-O 9.d3 Nbd7 10.Be3 c6 11.O-O-O d5 12.Nh3 Bxa3 13.bxa3 dxc4 14.dxc4 Nb6 15.c5 Nc4 16.Rde1 Nxe3 17.Rxe3 Bxh3 18.f4 Bg2 19.Rg1 exf4 20.Rd3 Bxe4 21.Rd4 Bd5 22.Rxf4 Bxa2 23.h4 h5 24.Rb4 Nd5 25.Rxb7 Nxc3 26.Kb2 Na4+ 27.Kxa2 Nxc5 28.Rb2 Ne6 29.Rd2 c5 30.Rd5 Rad8 31.Rxh5 Rd2+ 32.Ka1 g6 33.Re5 Rb8 34.Rb1 Rxb1+ 35.Kxb1 Rh2 36.a4 Rxh4 37.a5 Ra4 38.Rd5 Rxa5 39.Rd2 a6 White resigned 0-1

Apr-20-07   M.D. Wilson: Just play 1.c5 ...
May-06-07   HFlew: I find it hilarious that one of the practitioners as Black is "NN"!
Oct-16-07   valuim97: There is a trap: 1.e4 e5 2.Ne2 Nf6 3.f4 ef4 4.Nf4 Ne4? 5.Qe2 Qe7 6.Nd5 Qe3 7.Nbc3 c6(best) 8.d4! Qd4 9.Ne4 cd5 10.Nd6 Kd8 11.Qe8 Kc7 12.Nb5WOW!
May-31-09   GrahamClayton: <duu>I think that 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 is a underestimated opening. It gives a level game, if black knows what to play, but isn't chess like that?

1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 is historically known as the Danvers Opening. The opening was played in the first decade of the 20th century in the US by EE Southard. Southard was a doctor and a specialist on mental diseases at the Danvers Insane Hospital.

Edward Winter - Chess Notes #1732

Jul-14-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  sisyphus: I'm disappointed. For all the many lines covered by C20, most of the kibitzing is devoted to 2.Qh5 and 2.Bb5. There's nothing about the popular 2.d3, only one about 2.Ne2 and 2.c3 each, and nothing about that historical landmark Napoleon's Opening (2.Qf3).
Jul-15-09   MaxxLange: White's game is already in its last throes. What's the point of arguing about 2. c3 vs 2 Qh5 or 2 Nc3?
Jul-30-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: Opening of the Day

<Alapin's Opening <1.e4 e5 2.Ne2>>


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