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“I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father – and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I’d forget about my other pieces.” – Garry Kasparov

Learn to play Italian Gambit to avoid quiet and closed lines

The Italian Gambit is an opening in chess that commences with the following moves:

1. e4 e5 2. ♘f3 ♞c6 3. ♗c4 ♝c5 4. d4.

It is commonly employed as an alternative to the quiet and closed variations of the Giuoco Piano or Giuoco Pianissimo openings. Black has three options in response, regarding the accepted gambit:

  1. Capturing with the pawn leads to a transposition into the Scotch Gambit, typically resulting in the Max Lange Attack.
  2. Capturing with the knight is considered a weaker move as it permits 5. ♘xe5, which attacks f7 with both the bishop and the knight.
  3. Capturing with the bishop is deemed the optimal choice.

First, let’s analyze the most common variants:

Now, we’ll take a look at a sample game from our database:

Opening Theory

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