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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Greco Variation
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.e4b5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Greco Variation729k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
55%400k57%
27%198k53%
7.6%55k52%
3.3%24k52%
2.5%18k48%
1.4%10k49%
0.8%6.1k51%
0.6%4.1k48%
0.4%2.6k51%
0.3%2.4k49%
Famous games in this line492 master games
Aronian, L. (2785) – Nakamura, Hi (2750)Aronian, L. (2772) – Dominguez Perez, L. (2752)So, W. (2772) – Dominguez Perez, L. (2752)Mamedyarov, S. (2743) – Nakamura, Hi (2775)Mamedyarov, S. (2759) – Dominguez Perez, L. (2754)Duda, J. (2760) – Karjakin, Sergey (2743)Wojtaszek, R. (2715) – Nakamura, Hi (2775)Topalov, V. (2730) – Anand, V. (2751)Heroes of this opening Aronian, L. · Anand, V.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D20
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 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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