Exact catalogue record
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, McDonnell Defense, Main LineC51
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, McDonnell Defense, Main Line is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO C51, in volume C (open games after 1.e4 e5 plus the French Defense).
On this page
- ECO code
- C51
- Opening family
- Italian Game
- Recorded half-moves
- 16
- Last numbered move
- 8
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Black is ahead by 1 point
- FEN
- r1bqk1nr/ppp2ppp/1bnp4/8/2BPP3/5N2/P4PPP/RNBQ1RK1 w kq - 1 9
Scope of this record
This page preserves a source name, one exact legal move sequence and its resulting FEN. It does not claim that the sequence is best, common or strategically self-contained. Opening names can cover several move orders; the links below report only parent, continuation and family relationships present in this catalogue.
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Comes from
Main continuations
- Italian Game: Evans Gambit (C51)
- Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Göring Attack (C51)
- Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Ulvestad Variation (C51)
Other records under Italian Game
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Italian Game (C50)
- Italian Game: Anti-Fried Liver Defense (C50)
- Italian Game: Blackburne-Kostić Gambit (C50)
- Italian Game: Classical Variation, Albin Gambit (C50)
- Italian Game: Deutz Gambit (C50)
- Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo (C50)
- Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo (C50)
- Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo (C50)
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