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Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Dubois Variation
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.d3f55.Ng5f4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Dubois Variation32k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
78%25k25%
8.8%2.9k33%
7.3%2.4k44%
1.7%55363%
1.3%41822%
0.9%29333%
0.6%18847%
0.5%14821%
0.2%5128%
0.1%3216%
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 f5 5. Ng5 f4
Classical
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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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