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Italian Game: Paris Defense
6/6
1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4d6
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Italian Game: Paris Defense8.2M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
22%1.8M55%
17%1.4M53%
17%1.4M55%
16%1.3M52%
14%1.1M54%
12%961k54%
1.2%94k52%
0.4%35k34%
0.3%22k46%
0.2%14k54%
Famous games in this line701 master games
Gukesh, D. (2752) – Carlsen, M. (2839)Niemann, Hans Moke (2738) – Caruana, F. (2789)Anand, V. (2786) – Ivanchuk, V. (2738)Aronian, L. (2782) – Artemiev, V. (2699)Duda, J.. (2729) – Artemiev, V.. (2709)Ding Liren (2734) – Van Foreest, Jorden (2693)So, W. (2752) – Yakubboev, Nodirbek (2666)Van Foreest, Jorden (2701) – Artemiev, V.. (2709)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, M. · Caruana, F. · Aronian, L. · Van Foreest, Jorden
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6
Classical
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From the archives
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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