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- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Normal Variation C44
- Italian Game C50
- Giuoco Piano C50
- Italian Game: Evans Gambit C51 you are here
Italian Game: Evans Gambit
Overview
Italian Game: Evans Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C51, Open Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
The line arises from 7 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4.
The line refines Italian Game: Giuoco Piano, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 4 documented sub-systems: Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted, Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Fontaine Countergambit, and others.
Counted recursively, this branch covers 50 sub-variations at all depths.
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- ECO code
- C51
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 7
- Parent
- Italian Game: Giuoco Piano
- Direct variations
- 4
- Total in subtree
- 50
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Variations (4)
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- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted 8-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined 8-ply
- C51 Fontaine Countergambit 8-ply
- C51 Hein Countergambit 8-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined 9-ply
- C51 Cordel Variation 9-ply
- C51 Hirschbach Variation 12-ply
- C51 Lange Variation 12-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Anderssen Variation 10-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Main Line 10-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Mayet Defense 10-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, McDonnell Defense 10-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Stone-Ware Variation 10-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hicken Variation 17-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Pavlov Variation 23-ply
- C51 Showalter Variation 11-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Vasquez Variation 15-ply
- C51 Cordel Line 12-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Bronstein Defense 12-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Harding Variation 15-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Laroche Variation 12-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Leonhardt Countergambit 12-ply
- C51 Main Line 16-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Pierce Defense 12-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Slow Variation 11-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit 18-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit 12-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Anderssen Defense 14-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Compromised Defense 14-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Dufresne Defense 14-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Göring Attack 19-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Johner Defense 14-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Mieses Defense 14-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Morphy Attack 17-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Richardson Attack 15-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Sokolsky Variation 13-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Tartakower Attack 13-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Ulvestad Variation 19-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Waller Attack 15-ply
- C52 Alapin-Steinitz Variation 14-ply
- C52 Main Line 21-ply
- C52 Potter Variation 21-ply
- C51 Fraser Attack 19-ply
- C52 Lasker Defense 14-ply
- C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Levenfish Variation 21-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Paulsen Variation 20-ply
- C52 Sanders-Alapin Variation 14-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Steinitz Variation 21-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fraser-Mortimer Attack 25-ply
- C51 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Mortimer-Evans Gambit 26-ply