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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Accelerated Mannheim Variation
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.Qa4+
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Accelerated Mannheim Variation351k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
37%128k46%
28%99k50%
26%90k48%
6.6%23k46%
2.5%8.8k52%
0.3%1.2k41%
Famous games in this line82 master games
Kurajica, Bojan (2595) – Varga, Zoltan (2535)Freeman, Michael Roy (2513) – Fagerström, Björn (2586)Vinchev, Simeon (2508) – Gleichmann, Matthias (2573)Vinchev, Simeon (2508) – Panitevsky, Ivan Anatolevich (2566)Bryzgalin, Kirill (2473) – Korneev, Oleg (2584)Vinchev, Simeon (2508) – Kögler, Klaus (2547)Bryzgalin, Kirill (2467) – Mista, Aleksander (2587)Neß, Heiko (2529) – Vinchev, Simeon (2512)- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D20
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Qa4+
Classical
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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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