C51 · Open · a plan for White

Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Mortimer-Evans Gambit

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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Bc56.d4exd47.O-Od68.cxd4Bb69.Nc3Bg410.Qa4Bd711.Qb3Na512.Bxf7+Kf813.Qc2Kxf7

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Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack, Berger VariationC56 3…Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.O-O Bc5 6.e5 …Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Yurdansky AttackC56 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 …Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, Therkatz-Herzog VariationC54 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4 …

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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. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Nc3 Bg4 10. Qa4 Bd7 11. Qb3 Na5 12. Bxf7+ Kf8 13. Qc2 Kxf7

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