C56 · Open · a plan for White
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Walbrodt-Baird Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.c3Nf65.d4exd46.O-O
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Walbrodt-Baird Gambit288k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
dxc347%136k39%
O-O24%68k41%
Nxe412%33k54%
d66.2%18k49%
d34.6%13k50%
d54.4%13k46%
h60.7%1.9k35%
Bb40.6%1.6k16%
Bb60.4%1.0k43%
Na50.2%54133%
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Petrosian, Tigran L (2539) – Grischuk, Alexander (2719)Karjakin, Sergey (2489) – Smirin, Ilia (2685)Karjakin, Sergey (2527) – Nielsen, Peter Heine (2620)Vykouk, Jan (2435) – Navara, D. (2707)Babujian, Levon (2386) – Sargissian, Gabriel (2630)Ozgibcev, A. (2376) – Shirov, A. (2630)Okhotnik, Vladimir (2445) – Anand, Viswanathan (2555)Axelrod, Arie (2403) – Golod, Vitali (2592)Heroes of this opening Smirin, Ilia · Nielsen, Peter Heine · Navara, D. · Sargissian, Gabriel
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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
- C56
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. O-O
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