The opening is named after the Mexican grandmaster Carlos Torre Repetto, who beat former World Champion Emanuel Lasker with it.

[1] The variation was also employed by Savielly Tartakower, Boris Spassky, and Tigran Petrosian early in his career.

Other noted top-level exponents include Alexey Dreev, Pentala Harikrishna, Krishnan Sasikiran and Jan Timman.

[2] The Torre Attack is rarely met in modern top-flight play as a "Go-to or Primary" system, and statistics suggest that it is not particularly advantageous for White.

[3][4][5] Due to its calm nature and relative lack of theory, however, it is popular at club level, giving White chances to seize a middlegame initiative.