C56 · Open · a plan for White
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Janowski Defense
10/10
1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.d4exd44.Bc4Nf65.O-Od6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Janowski Defense457k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
50%230k54%
15%66k49%
14%63k53%
7.4%34k57%
5.7%26k48%
4.8%22k46%
2.4%11k51%
0.2%73549%
0.1%68150%
0.1%64742%
Famous games in this line81 master games
Sulskis, S. (2490) – Vidit, S. (2716)Heberla, B. (2544) – Bartel, Mat (2662)Pijpers, A. (2474) – Nikolic, Pr (2574)Muzychuk, M. (2559) – Stefanova, A. (2476)Hajnal, Zoltan (2349) – Sandipan, Chanda (2628)Kadric, D. (2601) – Lalic, B. (2365)Inkiov, Ventzislav (2450) – Filip, Miroslav (2485)Zhang Xiaopeng (2306) – Wen Yang (2618)Heroes of this opening Vidit, S. · Nikolic, Pr · Inkiov, Ventzislav · Wen Yang
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C56
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. O-O d6
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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.
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