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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Richardson Attack
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Ba56.O-ONf67.d4O-O8.Nxe5
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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Richardson Attack254 games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
62%15846%
33%8354%
2.8%764%
1.6%475%
0.4%1100%
0.4%1100%
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- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C52
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O Nf6 7. d4 O-O 8. Nxe5
GambitAggressiveClassical
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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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