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Italian Game: Jerome Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.Bxf7+
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Italian Game: Jerome Gambit246k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
97%238k53%
2.8%7.0k40%
0.2%49732%
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Poleshchuk, Nikolay Nikolaevich (2477) – Konovalenko, Anatoly Nikolaevich (2110)- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Bxf7+
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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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