Structure de pions
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Pions doublés
Pions isolés
Arriérés
Chaînes
Passés
Majorité
Cases
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Cases fortes ● b5 (2v0), ● d5 (2v1)
Cases faibles
Centre ● d5 (2v1) ● d4 (1v0)
Colonnes et diagonales
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Pièces
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Bc1 ● Bc1 Non développé (mob. 0)
Bf1 ● Bf1 Non développé (mob. 0)
Bc8 ● Bc8 Non développé (mob. 0)
Bf8 ● Bf8 Non développé (mob. 5)
Paire de fous ● Oui ● Oui
Non développées 5 (● g1, ● c1, ● f1, ● a1, ● h1) 5 (● b8, ● c8, ● f8, ● a8, ● h8)
Sécurité du roi
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Statut ● Au centre ● Au centre
Droits de roque O-O / O-O-O O-O / O-O-O
Thèmes
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Phase Ouverture
Centre mobile
Ruptures ● d2-d4, ● f2-f4 ● …d7-d5

A22a — English: King’s, 2.Nc3 Nf6

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 *   ○ Trait aux Blancs

Ouverture — Centre mobile

♔ Point de vue Blancs

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bR
bN
bB
bQ
bK
bB
bR
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bN
Case forte (2v0)
Case forte (2v1)
bP
wP
wN
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wR
wB
wQ
wK
wB
wN
wR
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Plans. Nf3 (Développer g1 — 49 % des parties) ; g3 (Préparer le fianchetto — 45 % des parties).

♚ Point de vue Noirs

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
wR
wN
wB
wK
wQ
wB
wR
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wN
wP
bP
bN
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bR
bBFou actif — mobilité 5
bK
bQ
bB
bN
bR
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Plans. ...Nc6 (Développer b8 — 48 % des parties) ; ...d5 (Occuper le centre — 14 % des parties) ; ...Bb4 (Clouer c3, Fou actif (mobilité 7), Développer f8 — 12 % des parties) ; ...c6 (Renforcer le centre — 11 % des parties) ; ...d6 (Libérer Bc8 — 7 % des parties).
Avantages
Faiblesses
Diagonale active
Plans
Partie
1907 Vienna – Round 10 – Tartakower, Savielly – 1-0 – Schlechter, Carl – G42
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. g3 Be7 7. Bg2 Be6 8. O-O O-O 9. Kh1 h6 10. Ne1 Qd7
1951 Buenos Aires – Round 1 – Luckis, Marcos – 0-1 – Corte, Cesar J – G1
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. g3 Be7 7. Bg2 Be6 8. O-O O-O 9. Bd2 Nb6 10. a4 a5
1961 Stockholm SWE – Round 5 – Stahlberg, Gideon – 1/2-1/2 – Unzicker, Wolfgang – G5
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. d3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. g3 Be7 7. Bg2 Be6 8. O-O O-O 9. Bd2 Nb6 10. a3 f6
1963 Hastings6364 – Round 4 – Franklin Sheunesu Mhembere – 0-1 – Lengyel, Laszlo – G12
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. d3 c6 4. Nf3 d6 5. g3 Nbd7 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Ne1 Re8 9. e4 Nb6 10. h3 d5
1963 Hoogovens-C – Round 7 – Smederevac, Petar – 1-0 – Saemisch, Friedrich – G24
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Be6 7. Nf3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. Bd2 Nb6 10. Rc1 f5
1975 URS Team Ch – Round ? – Galdanov, Nikolai Munkovich – 0-1 – Kholmov, Ratmir D – G23
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bd2 Nc6 6. g3 Be6 7. Bg2 Be7 8. Rc1 O-O 9. Nf3 Qd7 10. O-O f6
43. Olympiad 2018 – Round 4.50 – Yakubboev, Nodirbek – 1-0 – Al-Ghasra, Ali – G279
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. a3 a5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 d6 7. e4 Be7 8. Be2 O-O 9. Be3 Bd7 10. Ndb5 Re8
Tata Steel India Blitz 2022 – Round 10.3 – Nakamura, Hikaru – 1-0 – Nihal Sarin – G46
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. a3 c6 4. d4 exd4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. e3 Be6 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. e4 Qb6 9. Nf3 Nxc3 10. Qxc3 Nd7
World Rapid 2019 – Round 9.36 – Romanov, Egor S. – 0-1 – Wojtaszek, Radoslaw – G585
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. d3 Bb4 4. Bd2 Nc6 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 h6 7. Nf3 Re8 8. O-O a5 9. Rc1 d6 10. Nd5 Bc5

A22a — King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation (1907)
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6
Les coups candidats
Ambassadeurs : Zielinski, Sergej (276x), Uhlmann, Wolfgang (128x), Fedukin, Alexandre (105x), Szerlak, Andrzej (105x), ? (102x), Korchnoi, Viktor (99x), Morley, Paul (82x), Beck, Georges (81x)
Ambassadeurs : Miezis, Normunds (194x), Morihama, Nicolau (114x), Vetter, Udo (86x), Sitorus, Yosua (56x), Schindler, Sven (48x), Marko, Martin (43x), Taimanov, Mark (34x), Korchnoi, Viktor (31x)
3.d3 — 2.8% (2375 parties)
Ambassadeurs : Nash Chris (11x), von Rosenberg, Clemens (11x), Csom, Istvan (10x), Jakobi, Wilfried (9x), Almirante Olay, Ruben (8x), Wirthensohn, Heinz (7x), Chans Farina, Juan Francisco (6x), Ruzicka, Vaclav (6x)
Ambassadeurs : Rahde, Frank (25x), Ablancourt, Jordan (18x), Sliwa, Bogdan (11x), Mena, Mario (11x), Keresztes, Mark (11x), Platonova, Lubov (11x), Ruckschloss, Karol (10x), Nagel, Hubert Heinrich (9x)
Analyse statistique des coups candidats
Répartition par niveau Elo (% des parties)
Tranche Elo N parties 3.Nf3 3.g3 3.d3 3.e4
<1800 7034 40% 46% 6% 5%
1800-2200 32373 47% 44% 3% 3%
2200-2600 26555 64% 30% 1% 1%
2600+ 2169 80% 14% 0%
Évolution par décennie (% des parties)
Décennie N parties 3.Nf3 3.g3 3.d3 3.e4
1950s 557 44% 52% 1% 3%
1960s 955 33% 61% 2% 2%
1970s 2733 58% 36% 1% 2%
1980s 4247 59% 36% 2% 1%
1990s 13396 48% 43% 3% 3%
2000s 22461 47% 43% 4% 4%
2010s 29346 53% 39% 3% 3%
2020s 11469 63% 30% 2% 2%
Tendances récentes (2010s → 2020s)
Coup 2010s 2020s Δ
3.Nf3 53% 63% ▲ +10.5%
3.g3 39% 30% ▼ -8.7%
3.d3 3% 2% ▼ -1.1%
3.e4 3% 2% ▼ -1.0%
Joueurs célèbres
Champions du monde dans cette position
Botvinnik, Mikhail — 10 parties
Karpov, Anatoly — 10 parties
Tal, Mikhail — 10 parties
Kasparov, Garry — 10 parties
Anand, Viswanathan — 10 parties
Kramnik, Vladimir — 10 parties
Carlsen, Magnus — 10 parties
Ju, Wenjun — 10 parties
Ding, Liren — 10 parties
Gukesh D — 10 parties
Smyslov, Vladimir — 7 parties
Hou, Yifan — 3 parties
Lasker, Emanuel — 1 partie
Smyslov, Vassily — 1 partie
Parties historiques
3.Nf3 — 51.9% (44197 parties)
1950 — Szabo, Laszlo vs Smyslov, Vasily — 1/2-1/2 — Wch candidates
1950 — Florian, Tibor vs Balogh, Janos — 1/2-1/2 — Budapest HUN
1950 — Purdy, Cecil J S vs Madsen, Sami — 1-0 — corr Wch1
1950 — Zalys, Ignas vs Tanguay, Alexandre — 1-0 — Montreal CAN
1950 — Al Husari, Zita Fatima vs Tarnowski, Alfred — 0-1 — Schiavno Zdroj
3.g3 — 39.3% (33468 parties)
1950 — Rudenko, Ludmila vs Rubtsova, Olga — 1-0 — Moscow RUS
1950 — Schmid, Lothar vs Niephaus, Walter — 1-0 — Wiesbaden GER
1950 — Almiron, Martin Alejandro vs Pinzon Solis, Felipe — 0-1 — Dubrovnik olm
1950 — Eisgrau, Sigfried vs Geller, Adam — 1-0 — Los Angeles, CA USA
1950 — Napolitano, Mario vs Nestler, Vincenzo — 1-0 — Sorrento
3.d3 — 2.8% (2375 parties)
1951 — Amaro, Lucas Ibrair vs Aroche Ramos, Cesar Armando — 0-1 — Buenos Aires ARG
1957 — Benini, Clarice vs Allan Prince S — 0-1 — Venice ITA
1958 — Bender, Albrecht vs Golomb, Solomon W — 1-0 — Barbera Santa CA
1960 — O`Connor, Eddie vs Lorera, Antonio — 1-0 — So California
1960 — Van Oosterom, Joop vs Perman, Torvald — 1-0 — Leningrad RUS
3.e4 — 2.8% (2355 parties)
1951 — Ader Hausman, Walter vs Aviles, O. — 1-0 — Santiago de Chile
1951 — Ader Hausman, Walter vs Muniz, Alexis — 1-0 — San Rafael
1951 — Wiener, Malcolum vs Abdou, William — 0-1 — California
1951 — Smith, Kenneth vs Mednis, Edmar J — 0-1 — Fort Worth, TX USA
1954 — Kuzminykh, Evgeny vs Chestnov, Vitaliy A. — 0-1 — Leningrad ch22-SU sf