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Italian Game: Deutz Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.O-ONf65.d4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Deutz Gambit1.2M games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
29%350k48%
9.8%120k38%
0.7%9.1k22%
0.7%8.9k22%
0.6%7.7k35%
0.6%7.6k25%
0.1%1.5k30%
0.1%1.4k17%
0.1%92523%
Famous games in this line443 master games
Movsesian, Sergei (2723) – Leko, Peter (2741)Movsesian, Sergei (2751) – Adams, Michael (2712)Dubov, Daniil (2676) – Radjabov, T. (2767)Short, Nigel D (2690) – Fressinet, Laurent (2718)Robson, R. (2628) – Dominguez Perez, L. (2757)Tkachiev, Vladislav (2664) – Eljanov, Pavel (2716)Predke, A. (2673) – Eljanov, P. (2706)Azarov, S. (2618) – Kamsky, G. (2672)Heroes of this opening Leko, Peter · Movsesian, Sergei · Short, Nigel D · Robson, R.
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d4
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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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