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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Bronstein Defense
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Ba56.d4d6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Bronstein Defense118k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
37%44k46%
16%19k50%
5.6%6.6k46%
1.2%1.4k37%
1%1.2k44%
0.7%87657%
0.3%31642%
0.2%18041%
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- 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 d6
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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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