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Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Nakhmanson Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Nf64.d4exd45.O-ONxe46.Nc3
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Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Nakhmanson Gambit63k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
42%27k39%
42%26k51%
11%6.7k51%
3.4%2.1k60%
1.1%70848%
0.2%15046%
0.1%9029%
0.1%5419%
0.1%4028%
0.1%4054%
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- 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. Nc3
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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