C50 · Open · a plan for White
Italian Game: Rousseau Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4f5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Rousseau Gambit2.4M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
d336%877k54%
exf535%843k40%
d415%359k56%
Nc36.7%162k42%
Bxg83.2%78k48%
O-O2.6%63k44%
c30.7%17k39%
Qe20.6%14k47%
Nxe50.4%9.3k33%
Ng50.4%8.6k28%
Famous games in this line15 master games
Spasov, Vasil (2598) – Dimitrov, Pavel (2404)Bojkov, Dejan (2514) – Dimitrov, Pavel (2304)Novik, Ma (2412) – Kiik, K. (2375)Reeh, Oliver (2399) – Bach, Matthias (2352)Matthey, Harald (2326) – Sobolevsky, Leonid (2415)Womacka, Mathias (2405) – Forgacs, Gyula (2325)Gomez Baillo, Jorge H (2430) – Colombo Berra, Fernando (2240)Kovacs, Laszlo M (2350) – Fusthy, Zsolt (2285)Heroes of this opening Spasov, Vasil · Dimitrov, Pavel · Reeh, Oliver · Womacka, Mathias
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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
- C50
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 f5
GambitClassical
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