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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Alatortsev Variation
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.Nf3a64.e3Bg45.Bxc4e66.d5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Alatortsev Variation13 games · Black to move
Only 13 games reach this position at this level — read it loosely.
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
31%425%
23%317%
15%20%
7.7%1100%
7.7%10%
7.7%10%
7.7%1100%
Famous games in this line6 master games
Azmaiparashvili, Zurab (2674) – Iuldachev, Saidali (2523)Dreev, Alexey (2570) – Huebner, Robert (2605)Gonzalez de la Torre, Santiago (2435) – Mirzoev, Azer (2553)Prudnikova, S. (2234) – Berzinsh, R. (2376)Biriukov, Oleg V (2378) – Bataev, Evgeny (2227)Lahner, Jakub (2291) – Bombek, Peter (2225)Heroes of this opening Azmaiparashvili, Zurab · Berzinsh, R. · Biriukov, Oleg V
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D22
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 a6 4. e3 Bg4 5. Bxc4 e6 6. d5
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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