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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Waller Attack
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Ba56.d4exd47.O-Od68.Qb3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Waller Attack44k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
61%27k42%
17%7.3k49%
14%6.3k44%
3.5%1.6k46%
0.8%33626%
0.7%32420%
0.6%28634%
0.6%26836%
0.6%25137%
0.5%24233%
Famous games in this line11 master games
Sveshnikov, Evgeny (2585) – Frolov, Artur (2525)Mieles Palau, Daniel (2444) – Granda Zuniga, Julio E (2599)Bodnaruk, A. (2423) – Ambartsumova, K. (2379)Hamdani, Rudin (2335) – Barus, Cerdas (2445)Urusov, Nikita (2290) – Feoktistov, Alexey A (2395)Kling, Tamara (2305) – Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman (2335)Ribeiro, Fernando (2285) – Rios Parra, Alejandro (2335)Bianchi, Guillermo (2330) – Cortes Moyano, Julio (2285)Heroes of this opening Frolov, Artur · Granda Zuniga, Julio E · Bodnaruk, A. · Barus, Cerdas
- Family
- 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. d4 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. Qb3
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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