Ponziani opening

He is a chess book author and a leading contemporary expert on the Ponziani Opening.

The Ponziani Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves:

Black can also decline with 4...Nf6, transposing to a line of the Ponziani Opening.

Staunton also advocated the Ponziani Opening 1.

Ponziani Opening (1.

Honest Ivan is got the white team an he get to make the first move, startin with somethin call The Ponziani Opening.

In the opening, Ponziani is best known as the eponym of the Ponziani Opening (1.

Play can potentially transpose to other openings, most likely the Ponziani Opening or the Göring Gambit in the Scotch Game.

Contemporary authors likewise call it the "Ponziani Opening", "Ponziani's Opening", or simply the "Ponziani".

Opening variations have been attributed to him in the Lopez, Sicilian Defence, Ponziani Opening, Evans Gambit, and the Scandinavian Defense.

The Reverend E.E. Cunnington in The Modern Chess Primer (Thirteenth Edition 1933) referred to it as the "Ponziani Opening (sometimes called Staunton's)".

The manuscript included examples of games with the openings now known as Damiano's Defence, Philidor's Defense, the Giuoco Piano, Petroff's Defense, the Bishop's Opening, the Ruy Lopez, the Ponziani Opening, the Queen's Gambit Accepted, 1.

Wilhelm Steinitz, the first World Champion, in his 1895 treatise The Modern Chess Instructor (Part II), inaccurately called the opening the "Ponziani Opening", as did his successor, Emanuel Lasker, in Lasker's Manual of Chess.