The Italian usually goes quiet. This line does not. On move four White hands over a pawn to pull the black bishop off the square it is guarding, then spends the move Black needs to save it on building the centre. 8 moves, ending two pawns down with cxd4 ready to take one straight back, and White scores 61.6%.
Move numbers: Lichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid, sampled 2026-08-14.