The main line is 5 Ng3 which has 3,686 games compared with 5 Nc3 which has only 5 games in Chessgames.com.
The most notable games with 5 Ng3 are Tal vs Botvinnik in World Ch 1960, Beliavsky vs Larsen in Tilburg 1981, and Carlsen vs Ernst in Wijk aan Zee 2004.
5 Ng3 was recently played in Bruzon vs Ivanchuk in Capablanca Memorial 2011, Barbosa vs Le in Ho Chi Minh 2011, So vs Vidit in Asian Idividuals 2011, Wang vs Ponomariov in Tata 2011, Radjabov vs Nisipeanu in Bazna 2011, So vs Zhou in Aeroflot 2011.
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In opening theories, this is known as the Classical Variation; 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 dxe4 4 Nxe4 Bf5.
The main line is 5 Ng3 which has 3,686 games compared with 5 Nc3 which has only 5 games in Chessgames.com.
The most notable games with 5 Ng3 are Tal vs Botvinnik in World Ch 1960, Beliavsky vs Larsen in Tilburg 1981, and Carlsen vs Ernst in Wijk aan Zee 2004.
5 Ng3 was recently played in Bruzon vs Ivanchuk in Capablanca Memorial 2011, Barbosa vs Le in Ho Chi Minh 2011, So vs Vidit in Asian Idividuals 2011, Wang vs Ponomariov in Tata 2011, Radjabov vs Nisipeanu in Bazna 2011, So vs Zhou in Aeroflot 2011.
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