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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Borisenko-Furman Variation

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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.Nf3a64.e4
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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Borisenko-Furman Variation14k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
70%9.6k49%
8.9%1.2k43%
7%96141%
3.5%48442%
2.9%40141%
2.9%39438%
1.3%17844%
1.1%14735%
0.7%8942%
0.5%6747%
Famous games in this line102 master games
Piket, Jeroen (2625)Granda Zuniga, Julio E (2605)1995½–½Acs, Peter (2580)Banusz, T. (2621)2019½–½Kortschnoj, Viktor (2625)Seirawan, Yasser (2575)1993½–½Ivanov, Sergey (2515)Salov, Valery (2665)1997½–½Johansen, Darryl Keith (2494)Nikolic, Predrag (2659)2000½–½Markos, Jan (2577)Schlosser, Philipp (2570)2009½–½Tazbir, Marcin (2555)Mista, Aleksander (2562)2012½–½Griego, David W (2463)Dlugy, Maxim (2644)19880–1
Category
Closed
First move
1.d4
ECO
D21
Line
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 a6 4. e4
Classical
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The Queen's Gambit appears in the earliest opening manuscripts (c. 1490, Göttingen). It anchored world-championship matches for a century — Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 was practically a Queen's Gambit theme event — and in 2020 a TV show made a 500-year-old pawn offer the most famous opening on the planet. It isn't even a real gambit: Black can't safely keep the pawn.

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