Tree path 9 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Italian Game › Giuoco Piano › Italian Game: Evans Gambit › Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined › Hirschbach Variation › Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hicken Variation
- 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
- Hirschbach Variation C51
- Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hicken Variation C51 you are here
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hicken Variation
Overview
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hicken Variation 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 begins with 17 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. b5 Na5 6. Nxe5 Qg5 7. Qf3 Qxe5 8. Qxf7+ Kd8 9. Bb2 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines Italian Game: Evans Gambit Declined, Hirschbach Variation, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- C51
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 17
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