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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fraser-Mortimer Attack

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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Bc56.d4exd47.O-Od68.cxd4Bb69.Nc3Bg410.Qa4Bd711.Qb3Na512.Bxf7+Kf813.Qc2
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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 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Nc3 Bg4 10. Qa4 Bd7 11. Qb3 Na5 12. Bxf7+ Kf8 13. Qc2
GambitAggressiveClassical
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From the archives

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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