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Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Anderssen Attack

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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Nf64.d4exd45.O-ONxe46.Re1d57.Bxd5Qxd58.Nc3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Anderssen Attack308k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
35%107k50%
31%95k55%
17%52k47%
7.9%24k54%
5.8%18k44%
1.2%3.7k57%
0.6%1.8k6%
0.5%1.6k10%
0.5%1.4k11%
0.2%74013%
Famous games in this line736 master games
Dubov, Daniil (2710) – Giri, A.. (2764)2021½–½Jones, G.. (2670) – So, W.. (2770)20211–0Savchenko, Boris (2632) – Karjakin, Sergey (2760)20101–0Wei Yi (2743) – Wen Yang (2605)2017½–½Savchenko, Boris (2632) – Andreikin, Dmitry (2683)20100–1Grischuk, A. (2667) – Anton Guijarro, D. (2625)2025½–½Rogers, Ian (2580) – Adams, Michael (2660)1996½–½Savchenko, B. (2556) – Zvjaginsev, V. (2660)2015½–½
Heroes of this opening Jones, G.. · Savchenko, Boris · Andreikin, Dmitry
Family
Italian Game
Category
Open
First move
1.e4
ECO
C56
Line
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. O-O Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Nc3
GambitAggressiveClassical
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Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Anderssen Attack, Main Line8…Qa5 9.Nxe4 Be6 10.Bd2 Qd5 11.Bg5
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From the archives

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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