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Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Fianchetto Variation, Bg4 Line
10/10
1.d4d52.c4e53.dxe5d44.Nf3Nc65.g3Bg4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Fianchetto Variation, Bg4 Line130k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
85%111k57%
12%15k59%
2.1%2.8k53%
0.5%63749%
0.2%20158%
0.1%19056%
0.1%15850%
0.1%9162%
0.1%8847%
0%5039%
Famous games in this line94 master games
Van der Wiel, John (2498) – Tiviakov, Sergei (2618)Milov, Vadim (2595) – Renet, Olivier (2494)Gurevich, Mikhail (2667) – Yilmaz, Turhan (2338)Knezevic, Milorad (2500) – Klaric, Zlatko (2465)Malakhatko, Vadim (2559) – Philippe, Christophe (2399)Vera Gonzalez Quevedo, Reynaldo (2494) – Perez Mitjans, Orelvis (2427)Oll, Lembit (2585) – Hvenekilde, Jorgen (2320)Birnboim, Nathan (2465) – Veinger, Itzhak (2440)Heroes of this opening Van der Wiel, John · Milov, Vadim · Gurevich, Mikhail · Klaric, Zlatko
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D09
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. g3 Bg4
GambitFianchettoClassical
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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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