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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.Nf3a6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense93k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
33%30k55%
29%27k58%
12%11k54%
9%8.3k55%
1.6%1.5k51%
1.1%1.0k45%
0.8%73651%
0.3%31552%
0.2%16349%
Famous games in this line2.1k master games
Giri, A. (2785) – Carlsen, M. (2855)Kasparov, Garry (2812) – Anand, Viswanathan (2784)Kramnik, Vladimir (2797) – Anand, Viswanathan (2794)Aronian, Levon (2809) – Svidler, Peter (2747)Caruana, Fabiano (2770) – Nakamura, Hikaru (2775)Jakovenko, Dmitrij (2736) – Carlsen, Magnus (2801)Karpov, Anatoly (2760) – Anand, Viswanathan (2765)Grischuk, A. (2780) – Svidler, P. (2734)- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D22
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 a6
Classical
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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Borisenko-Furman Variation4.e4Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Haberditz Variation4.e3 b5Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Alatortsev Variation4.e3 Bg4 5.Bxc4 e6 6.d5
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From the archives
The Queen's Gambit appears in the Göttingen manuscript, written around 1500. It anchored world-championship matches for decades — 32 of the 34 games of Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 were Queen's Gambit Declined — and in 2020 a Netflix series watched by 62 million households emptied the world's chess-set shelves. It isn't even a real gambit: Black cannot safely keep the pawn.
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