C51 · Open · a plan for White
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hirschbach Variation
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bb65.b5Na56.Nxe5Qg5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hirschbach Variation214 games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
Bxf7+58%12541%
Qf319%4048%
Nxf711%2350%
d49.8%2145%
Nf31.4%333%
Ng40.5%10%
O-O0.5%10%
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Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Vasquez VariationC51 7.Bxf7 Ke7 8.Qh5Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hicken VariationC51 7.Qf3 Qxe5 8.Qxf7 Kd8 9.Bb2
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The Italian Game is in the Göttingen manuscript and Polerio's notebooks — chess players have been putting the bishop on c4 for more than four centuries. It fell out of top-level fashion for decades, then returned as a main weapon of Carlsen and Caruana, proving the oldest plans still bite.
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C51
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. b5 Na5 6. Nxe5 Qg5
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