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Italian Game: Classical Variation, Albin Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.O-ONf65.c3
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Italian Game: Classical Variation, Albin Gambit2.3M games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
38%863k41%
30%680k49%
16%349k52%
3.9%89k38%
3.7%84k42%
3.1%71k35%
2.8%63k51%
0.7%16k41%
0.5%12k34%
0.5%12k55%
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Vatsal, Singhania (2371) – Sethuraman, S.. (2644)Rodriguez Vila, Andres (2492) – Sorin, Ariel (2502)Torre, E. (2449) – Gomez, Joh (2524)Radulovic, Bojan (2308) – Georgiev, Kiril (2665)Barua, Dibyendu (2520) – Koshy, Varugeese (2410)Galego, Luis (2495) – Luch, Michal (2426)Okhotnik, Vladimir (2405) – Lukacs, Peter (2515)Gomez Garrido, Camilo Ernesto (2473) – Guerra Mendez, Jose Angel (2438)Heroes of this opening Sethuraman, S.. · Gomez, Joh · Georgiev, Kiril · Barua, Dibyendu
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. c3
GambitClassical
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The Italian Game appears in the Göttingen manuscript (c. 1500) and in Polerio's notebooks — chess players have been putting the bishop on c4 for more than five hundred years. It fell out of top-level fashion for decades, then came back as White players went looking for a way round the Berlin Defence; Carlsen used the quiet Giuoco Pianissimo in the 2016 world-championship match.
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