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, Main Line › Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Slow Variation › Italian Game: Evans Gambit › Sanders-Alapin Variation
  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
  10. Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Slow Variation C52
  11. Italian Game: Evans Gambit C52
  12. Sanders-Alapin Variation C52 you are here
C52

Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Sanders-Alapin Variation

Open in Lichess
Share: X Reddit Telegram Facebook
Play from here → Click pieces to play, or use ← / → arrows.

Overview

Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Sanders-Alapin Variation is a gambit, classified under ECO code C52 within the Open Games family. As with all gambits, one side sacrifices material early — usually a pawn — in exchange for development, open lines, or initiative.

The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.

It begins with 14 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O d6 7. d4 Bd7 to reach the canonical position.

It is a variation of Italian Game: Evans Gambit, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.

Step through the moves on the interactive board below, review the live Lichess statistics, or play this position against Stockfish at one of six difficulty levels.

ECO code
C52
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
14
Parent
Italian Game: Evans Gambit

This overview is generated automatically from the opening's metadata. A more detailed, human-written description is on the way — and you can speed it up by suggesting one yourself.

Statistics from Lichess

Loading…

Description

Write a description

Markdown supported (headings ###, bold, lists, links). Submissions are reviewed before publishing.

Related variations at the same level

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

https://test.av-webdevs.com/openings/italian-game-evans-gambit-sanders-alapin-variation