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Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Lucchini Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.d3f5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Lucchini Gambit263k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
31%82k55%
15%41k35%
14%36k55%
10%27k49%
8.4%22k55%
6.9%18k55%
5.4%14k56%
3.8%10.0k55%
1.3%3.4k55%
0.9%2.3k54%
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 f5
GambitClassical
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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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