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Italian Game:Evans Gambit Accepted

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4

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White to move

Legal moves
31
Games in the next 4 moves
1,040,088
Different positions among them
346,116
Named lines from here
38

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It is reached after 8 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4. It is a line of the Italian Game.

White is to move and has 31 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,040,088 different games. Those games reach 346,116 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 38 further lines after this position, such as Evans Gambit, Main Line (5. c3 Ba5) and Evans Gambit, McDonnell Defense (5. c3 Bc5).

The same moves can be played in 45 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. Nf3 e5 2. e4 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4, which starts as the Zukertort Opening.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 1,040,088 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... e5King's Pawn Game
  3. 2. Nf3King's Knight Opening
  4. 2... Nc6King's Knight Opening: Normal Variation
  5. 3. Bc4Italian Game
  6. 3... Bc5Italian Game: Giuoco Piano
  7. 4. b4Italian Game: Evans Gambit
  8. 4... Bxb4Italian Game: Evans Gambit Accepted

Named lines from here

Famous games through this position

The Evergreen GameAnderssen, Berlin 1852, move 4Anderssen sacrifices his queen and mates with a bishop; more than 170 years on, the game is still fresh.

Related openings

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