Italian Gambit for White Ideas, Traps, and Tricks - Remote Chess Academy

We all love to surprise your opponents early in the game with an unfamiliar opening attack. In today’s video lesson, I’m sharing with you one such opening variation that has a lot of hidden ideas and powerful attacking opportunities. It happens in the Italian Gambit from Giuoco Piano which happens after the opening moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d4. After White plays 4.d4, Black has 3 options: Take with the pawn (4…exd4, a transposition to the Scotch Gambit, usually leading to the Max Lange Attack) Take with the knight (4…Nxd4), which is considered weak since it allows 5.Nxe5, attacking f7 with the bishop and knight Take with the bishop (4…Bxd4), which is considered best And you will learn how to play against each of these responses and win quickly! This variation is going to shock your opponents and will get you a lot of victories as all the most natural moves for Black falls into deadly traps. Best of all, I’m sharing with you my personal analysis and novelties! Therefore, you have a lot of chances of crushing your opponents as White after 1.e4. You can find the PGN of this opening variation below: 

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