C57 · Open · a plan for White
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Fritz, Gruber Variation
15/15
1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Nf64.Ng5d55.exd5Nd46.c3b57.Bf1Nxd58.Ne4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Fritz, Gruber Variation4.9k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
38%1.9k47%
27%1.4k42%
13%63053%
8.3%41233%
7.3%35940%
5%24740%
0.8%3836%
0.1%714%
0.1%520%
0.1%50%
Famous games in this line59 master games
Narciso Dublan, Marc (2450) – Kuzmin, Alexey (2525)Timman, Jan H (2675) – Arikok, Enis (2290)Muzychuk, Anna (2417) – Antic, Dejan (2505)Bagirov, Rufat (2467) – Gubajdullin, Alexey (2455)Vouldis, Angelos (2425) – Grivas, Efstratios (2495)Barbeau, Sylvain (2404) – Garcia, Gildardo (2461)Sermek, Drazen (2515) – Olarasu, Gabriela (2347)Pilgaard, Kim (2400) – Pedersen, Nicolai Vesterbaek (2441)Heroes of this opening Arikok, Enis · Bagirov, Rufat · Grivas, Efstratios · Barbeau, Sylvain
- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C57
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nd4 6. c3 b5 7. Bf1 Nxd5 8. Ne4
Classical
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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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