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Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Lange Variation
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bb65.b5Na56.Nxe5Nh6
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Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Lange Variation2.6k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
54%1.4k43%
25%64337%
4.6%12035%
3.5%9050%
2.8%7436%
2.8%7342%
1.6%4231%
1.4%3653%
0.9%2423%
0.9%2346%
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- 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 Nh6
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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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