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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Hein Countergambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4d5
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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Hein Countergambit5.7k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
66%3.8k49%
21%1.2k39%
6.3%36133%
6.3%35841%
0.4%2245%
0.2%1080%
0.1%450%
0%20%
0%250%
0%10%
Famous games in this line8 master games
Nabaty, T. (2579) – Foisor, C. (2390)Felgaer, Ruben (2390) – Pierrot, Juan Facundo (2423)Ziegler, Ari (2345) – Ornstein, Axel (2408)Dedina, Miroslav (2387) – Splíchal, Josef (2331)Zuse, Klaus Peter (2340) – Riedel, Wolfgang (2350)Sandu, Mihaela (2248) – Foisor, Cristina Adela B (2395)Ernst, Thomas (2355) – Diesen, Bruce (2200)Caldeira, Adriano (2304) – Nogueira, Ivan Kuhlmann (2243)Heroes of this opening Nabaty, T. · Felgaer, Ruben · Ornstein, Axel · Dedina, Miroslav
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C51
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 d5
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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