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Italian / Prussian / Traxler - Literature ?

@PatzerGareBear13 As @srchernik15 correctly pointed out, h6 is the by far most common move after Be2, so white gives himself the option of Ne4.
Because of that h6 is not actually that good (it's ok, but not really critical) against Bd3, rather Nd5 or the by me recommended Ng4. The idea is that if black gives white enough time white can keep the Knight on e4 and move the Bishop away later (or even sometimes play b3 Bb2) and black might not have that much compensation.
@All

Thank you for your kind contributions.

The Jan Pinski The Two Knights seems to be the best choice for the time being for me, the slow Italian by Karsten Muller doesnt cover the Ng5 or Traxler lines at all regrettably.

I hv the Daniel King Power Play DVD abt the Italian which is however mainly for the white repertoire. As Black I ddnt use to play 1... e5 being an Accelerated Dragon fan normally, but taste is changing recently, hence my query.

So probably hv to go for the L'Ami DVD sooner or later.

Cheers M.
The Jan Pinski book (2004) is 13 years outdated.
I do not get the idea of Bd3: just ...Nd5 or ...Bc5 looks fine for black.
For the record: Morphy refers to the line d3 instead of Bb5+.
Bronstein called the line with Bb5+ Chigorin Counter-Attack.
The theory for the Traxler can differ from computer analysis. For example after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 5. Nxf7 Bxf2+ 6. Kf1 Qe7 7. Nxh8 d5 8. exd5 Nd4 Stockfish initially recommends the losing move 9. c3
@tpr Thank you for the advice, I saw that already and in 2016 a new edition was planned by Everyman Chess, but not executed so far it seems, I found a cheap 2nd hand edition already which will do the trick for starters.

I appreciate also that those tactical lines may well be played thru by an engine but I still prefer books with comments, I m a romantic :- )

Cheers M.
@tpr If black plays Nd5 then white can go Nf3 and black can't play e4. After Bc5 white can also just make a normal move and is fine too.
The idea is simply to prevent the usual h6, e4 etc. plan for black. It obviously not refuting the opening or anything, just a move that has to be considered.
An interesting book on the Traxler is "The Real American Wilkes-Barre Variation Two Knights Defense" by Kenneth F. Williams written back in 1979. Worth a look... it does have a bias toward the work the Wilkes-Barre Chess Club put into analyzing the opening. It is surprising how lines in this opening vs computer lines don't agree in the evaluation of the position. Was just looking at one of the lines in the book that the computer was calculating 0.00, but after making the moves, it the lines start to show advantage for black. There's a lot of good thoughts out there pre-computer era, but doesn't hurt to extensively look at each line and go deeper in the computer evaluations to discover these nuances.
@tpr I challenge you to find a good book on the italian that is more or less new. The only ones you might find are those which I told before. And there aren't many more.
@MoistvonLipwig
Also there is another variation, instead of retreating the bishop to d3 or e2 Qf3 is also playable, pinning the pawn.
We have another alternative that is to play Be2, then black would play e4 and Ne5, in the case it's attacked, f4 or d4 are good responses.
Also I have seen some players that played Bf1!? instead of Bd3 or Be2
Just discovered the following: DVD of Robert Ris, black repertoire against the Two Knights, based on the Traxler, 2014.
The DVD of l'Ami has already been mentioned, I think his starting point is 4.Ng5 d5 and covers all sorts of lines.

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