C51 · Open · a plan for White
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Harding Variation
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Bc56.d4exd47.cxd4Bb4+8.Bd2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Harding Variation160k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
Bxd2+78%125k46%
Qe76.3%10k41%
Nf65.6%9.0k45%
d64.3%6.9k36%
Nge72.7%4.3k46%
Qf60.8%1.3k44%
a50.7%1.1k43%
Be70.5%78938%
d50.3%52245%
h60.2%37735%
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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 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 Bb4+ 8. Bd2
GambitClassical
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