Torre Attack:Classical Defense

The Torre Attack is named after the Mexican master Carlos Torre Repetto: White pins the f6 knight with Bg5 after Nf3.

It is reached after 5 moves: 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5. It is a line of the Torre Attack.

Black is to move and has 27 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 761,349 different games. Those games reach 257,689 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 4 further lines after this position, such as Nimzowitsch Variation (3... h6) and Wagner Gambit (3... c5 4. e4).

The same moves can be played in 6 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. Bg5, which starts as the Zukertort Opening.