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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
- Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted C51 you are here
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted
Overview
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted is a sacrificial opening line filed under ECO C51 in the Open Games group. The defining idea is the early concession of material to seize the initiative and unbalance the position.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
It begins with 8 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 to reach the canonical position.
In the opening tree, this line branches off from Italian Game: Evans Gambit, part of the broader King's Pawn Game system.
5 named variations grow from this line, including Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Anderssen Variation, Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Main Line, Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Mayet Defense, and others.
Counted recursively, this branch covers 38 sub-variations at all depths.
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- ECO code
- C51
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 8
- Parent
- Italian Game: Evans Gambit
- Direct variations
- 5
- Total in subtree
- 38
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Variations (5)
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- 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 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