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The 479 selected annotated games offer excellent material for study. Top players such as Carlsen (1 annotated game), Abdusattarov (1), Anand (2), Duda (1), Esipenko (1), Firouzja (3), Giri (16), Gukesh (1), Keymer (1), Kramnik (1), Praggnanandhaa (2), Sevian (1), So (5) and Vidit (2) have analysed their games with in addition annotations by Italian Game experts like Lukacs (141), Marin (24), Roiz (15) as well as other top level authors. There is a total of 8571 games with a rating average of at least 2600 (apart from games with annotations or played by Italian Game experts Demchenko, So, Aronian und Niemann).
Desktop-PC or Notebook with 8 GB RAM, Windows 11 or 10, Internet access,
ChessBase’26, 18 oder 17 or Fritz 20.

A double click on the database loads the overview of the games. A further double click loads the relevant game. The tab Players lets you sort the games by frequency (with the tab Total). Anton Demchenko heads the list with 470 games, followed by Wesley So (442), Levon Aronian (380) und Hans Moke Niemann (343). Furthermore, it is interesting to click on Title; (for that you should have an up-to-date player encyclopaedia) you can see that almost all the world champions had or still have the Italian Game in their repertoire.

The games can be played through or further investigated with an engine or a powerbook.