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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 Declined C51 you are here
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined
Overview
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined 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.
It is reached after 8 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6.
The line refines Italian Game: Evans Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 4 documented sub-systems: Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Cordel Variation, Hirschbach Variation, and others.
In total, the branch covers 8 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C51
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 8
- Parent
- Italian Game: Evans Gambit
- Direct variations
- 4
- Total in subtree
- 8
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Variations (4)
Show all 8 sub-variations (full subtree)
- 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 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