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ECO C53: Italian Game: Classical Variation

ECO C53 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 8 named lines under it. The shortest is Italian Game: Classical Variation: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3. 7 of the 8 are lines of the Italian Game: Classical Variation.

That position has come up in 13,133,957 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 51.0%, 4.5% were drawn and Black won 44.5%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Italian Game: Classical Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 13.1M 4 moves
Italian Game: Classical Variation, Closed Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Qe7 165K 4 moves
Italian Game: Bird's Attack 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. b4 233K 5 moves
Italian Game: Classical Variation, Center Holding Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Qe7 5. d4 Bb6 52K 5 moves
Italian Game: Classical Variation, Mestel Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Qe7 5. d4 Bb6 6. Bg5 2,336 6 moves
Italian Game: Classical Variation, La Bourdonnais Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 d6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb6 1.1M 6 moves
Italian Game: Classical Variation, Eisinger Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Qe7 5. d4 Bb6 6. d5 Nb8 7. d6 688 7 moves
Italian Game: Classical Variation, Tarrasch Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Qe7 5. d4 Bb6 6. O-O d6 7. a4 a6 8. h3 Nf6 9. Re1 828 9 moves