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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Dufresne Defense
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Ba56.d4exd47.O-Od3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Dufresne Defense9.4k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
60%5.6k55%
27%2.5k43%
4.2%39551%
2.9%27240%
1.9%18252%
1.5%14143%
1.5%13944%
0.6%5258%
0.3%3234%
0.1%1346%
Famous games in this line15 master games
Winants, Luc (2495) – Kosashvili, Yona (2560)Grosar, Aljosa (2470) – Ibragimov, Ildar (2575)Abergel, Thal (2474) – Kosteniuk, Alexandra (2531)Kislinsky, A. (2513) – Simacek, P. (2490)Vallejo Pons, Francisco (2519) – Narciso Dublan, Marc (2447)Wan, Yunguo (2474) – Zeng, Chongsheng (2463)Shuvalova, Polina (2383) – Galliamova, A. (2443)Mosadeghpour, Masoud (2325) – Iskandarov, M. (2396)Heroes of this opening Kosashvili, Yona · Abergel, Thal · Simacek, P. · Narciso Dublan, Marc
- 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 d3
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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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