C56 · Open · a plan for White
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack, Spielmann Defense
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.d4exd44.Bc4Nf65.O-OBc56.e5Ng4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack, Spielmann Defense444k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
28%125k66%
28%123k63%
19%83k58%
5.9%26k63%
4.9%22k60%
4.3%19k47%
1.4%6.1k45%
1%4.6k70%
0.1%56851%
Famous games in this line9 master games
De Dovitiis, A. (2327) – Krysa, L. (2517)Volovikov, Anton (2324) – Budnikov, Oleg (2442)Pirrot, Dieter (2410) – Thinius, Marco (2310)Leygue, Dominique (2221) – Flear, Glenn C (2489)Belyakov, Bogdan (2375) – Myshkin, Nikita (2268)Campos, Jose Felix (2255) – Juarez, Alberto (2265)Gayson, Peter (2257) – Yeo, Michael J (2251)Rozman, Edo (2210) – Markun, Bostjan (2265)Heroes of this opening Krysa, L. · Budnikov, Oleg · Pirrot, Dieter · Leygue, Dominique
- 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 Bc5 6. e5 Ng4
GambitSharpAggressiveClassical
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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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