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Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Variation, Trencianske-Teplice Gambit
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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Nf64.Ng5Bc55.Bxf7+Ke76.d4
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Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Variation, Trencianske-Teplice Gambit2.1k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
54%1.1k56%
36%74454%
6.4%13236%
1.7%3520%
0.8%1732%
0.1%30%
0.1%225%
0.1%20%
0.1%225%
0%10%
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Sergeev, Vladimir (2498) – Simacek, Pavel (2404)- Family
- Italian Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C57
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 5. Bxf7+ Ke7 6. d4
GambitSharpClassical
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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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