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Italian Game: Hungarian Defense, Tartakower Variation
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Be74.d4exd45.c3Nf66.e5Ne4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Hungarian Defense, Tartakower Variation64k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
65%42k49%
18%12k63%
8.2%5.2k49%
3.6%2.3k43%
1.3%85841%
1.3%81741%
0.6%36946%
0.4%28750%
0.3%21416%
0.2%13439%
Famous games in this line21 master games
Vysochin, Spartak (2599) – Simantsev, Mikhail (2371)Willemze, T. (2408) – Gaehwiler, G. (2439)Mueller, Karsten (2380) – Szymczak, Zbigniew (2345)Luukkonen, T. (2237) – Rozentalis, E. (2476)Zarnicki, Pablo (2385) – Toledo Lopez, Francisco J (2300)Fitzsimons, D. (2337) – Rogers, Jo (2340)Rozhkov, Vecheslav (2282) – Glidzhain, Gor (2381)Wessendorf, Thomas (2280) – Gawehns, Klaus (2365)Heroes of this opening Vysochin, Spartak · Mueller, Karsten · Rozentalis, E. · Fitzsimons, D.
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Be7 4. d4 exd4 5. c3 Nf6 6. e5 Ne4
Classical
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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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