C51 · Open · a plan for White
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fontaine Countergambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4b5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fontaine Countergambit1.4k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
Bxf7+45%61079%
Bxb537%50974%
bxc56.9%9461%
c34.4%6067%
Bd53.8%5270%
Bb32.5%3465%
Be20.2%3100%
Bf10.1%250%
d30.1%10%
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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 b5
GambitClassical
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