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Italian Game: Rosentreter Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.d4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Rosentreter Gambit1.5M games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
18%272k57%
6.7%104k50%
1.1%17k25%
0.7%11k24%
0.3%5.1k41%
0.3%4.3k37%
0.2%3.0k43%
0.1%1.5k25%
0.1%1.4k37%
Famous games in this line99 master games
Fishbein, A. (2481) – Brown, Michael William (2478)Zezulkin, Jurij (2558) – Gross, David (2400)Jaiveer, Mahendru (2393) – Karthik, V4. (2563)Kontic, Djordjije (2355) – Abramovic, Bosko (2507)Caron, Sérgio Valladares (2406) – Gagliardi, Virgilio (2451)Gagliardi, Virgilio (2451) – Caron, Sérgio Valladares (2406)Kontic, Djordjije (2400) – Lazic, Miroljub (2450)Seczek, Krzysztof (2382) – Jarabinský, Martin (2464)Heroes of this opening Brown, Michael William · Gross, David · Karthik, V4. · Abramovic, Bosko
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d4
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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