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  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, Main Line C52 you are here
C52

Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Main Line

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Overview

Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Main Line belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C52, 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 10 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 to reach the canonical position.

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

The line splits into 5 documented sub-systems: Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Bronstein Defense, Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Laroche Variation, Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Leonhardt Countergambit, and others.

Together the deeper variations number 22 across the full subtree.

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ECO code
C52
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
10
Parent
Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted
Direct variations
5
Total in subtree
22

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Variations (5)

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Sister lines that share the same parent Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted:

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