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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fraser Attack
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Bc56.d4exd47.O-Od68.cxd4Bb69.Nc3Bg410.Qa4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fraser Attack219 games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
68%14838%
18%3935%
5.5%1250%
4.1%928%
3.7%856%
0.9%20%
0.5%10%
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C51
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Nc3 Bg4 10. Qa4
GambitAggressiveClassical
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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fraser-Mortimer Attack10…Bd7 11.Qb3 Na5 12.Bxf7 Kf8 13.Qc2 · 1 deeper lineItalian Game: Evans Gambit, Mortimer-Evans Gambit10…Bd7 11.Qb3 Na5 12.Bxf7 Kf8 13.Qc2 …
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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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