Chess Codex
Tree path 11 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Italian Game › Giuoco Piano › Italian Game: Evans Gambit › Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted › Italian Game: Evans Gambit, McDonnell Defense › Main Line › Italian Game: Evans Gambit › Fraser Attack
  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: Evans Gambit C51
  8. Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted C51
  9. Italian Game: Evans Gambit, McDonnell Defense C51
  10. Main Line C51
  11. Italian Game: Evans Gambit C51
  12. Fraser Attack C51 you are here
C51

Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fraser Attack

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Overview

Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fraser Attack 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 19 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Nc3 Bg4 10. Qa4.

The line refines Italian Game: Evans Gambit, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

It continues primarily into one named line, Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Fraser-Mortimer Attack.

In total, the branch covers 2 sub-variations across all depths.

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ECO code
C51
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
19
Parent
Italian Game: Evans Gambit
Direct variations
1
Total in subtree
2

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