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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Haberditz Variation
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.Nf3a64.e3b5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Haberditz Variation25k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
80%20k60%
7.4%1.8k51%
4.5%1.1k53%
2.7%67560%
2.3%57354%
1.2%28649%
1.1%26750%
0.4%9654%
0.3%6746%
0.1%2546%
Famous games in this line380 master games
Aronian, Levon (2809) – Svidler, Peter (2747)Jakovenko, Dmitrij (2736) – Carlsen, Magnus (2801)Grischuk, A. (2780) – Svidler, P. (2734)Harikrishna, P. (2730) – Mamedyarov, S. (2782)Moiseenko, A1. (2710) – So, W. (2779)Xiong, Jeffery (2709) – Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2764)Wang, Yue (2739) – Grischuk, Alexander (2733)Keymer, Vincent (2731) – Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. (2729)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, Magnus · Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar · Aravindh, Chithambaram VR.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D22
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 a6 4. e3 b5
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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