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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Mieses Defense
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Ba56.d4exd47.O-ONge7
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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Mieses Defense105k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
48%51k49%
32%34k73%
12%13k42%
3.6%3.8k42%
1.4%1.5k45%
1%1.1k51%
0.8%84540%
0.4%41844%
0.1%10639%
0.1%8145%
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Vachier Lagrave, M. (2774) – So, W. (2767)Morozevich, Alexander (2745) – Adams, Michael (2746)Short, Nigel D (2683) – Adams, Michael (2715)Sulskis, Sarunas (2571) – Svidler, Peter (2686)Johnson, Maurice W (2518) – Webb, Simon (2655)Ovetchkin, Roman (2519) – Lastin, Alexander (2634)Pavlidis, Ant (2532) – Sarana, A. (2457)Muzychuk, Anna (2469) – Kosteniuk, Alexandra (2515)Heroes of this opening Vachier Lagrave, M. · Adams, Michael · Svidler, Peter · Lastin, Alexander
- 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 Nge7
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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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