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  1. Chess Codex
  2. King's Pawn Game C20
  3. King's Knight Opening C40
  4. Normal Variation C44
  5. Italian Game C50
  6. Giuoco Piano C50
  7. Italian Game: Classical Variation C53
  8. Italian Game: Classical Variation C54
  9. Center Attack C54
  10. Italian Game: Classical Variation, Greco Gambit, Traditional Line C54
  11. Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, Greco's Attack C54
  12. Italian Game: Classical Variation, Greco Gambit, Greco Variation C54 you are here
C54

Italian Game: Classical Variation, Greco Gambit, Greco Variation

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Overview

Italian Game: Classical Variation, Greco Gambit, Greco Variation is a gambit, classified under ECO code C54 within the Open Games family. As with all gambits, one side sacrifices material early — usually a pawn — in exchange for development, open lines, or initiative.

The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.

Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 Nxe4 8. O-O Nxc3, after 16 plies of opening development.

It is a variation of Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, Greco's Attack, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.

It branches into 2 notable variations — Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, Aitken Variation, Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, Bernstein Variation.

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ECO code
C54
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
16
Parent
Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, Greco's Attack
Direct variations
2

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Variations (2)

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Sister lines that share the same parent Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, Greco's Attack:

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