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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense, Somov Gambit

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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.e4e54.Bxc4
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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense, Somov Gambit54k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
51%28k48%
42%23k57%
3%1.6k51%
1.8%97848%
0.5%29542%
0.3%18040%
0.2%10039%
0.2%9724%
0.1%5049%
0.1%3339%
Famous games in this line3 master games
Afromeev, Vladimir (2547) – Shestakov, Sergei S (2342)20041–0Amura, Claudia Noemi (2360) – Gonzalez Garcia, Jose (2475)1997½–½Murillo Subía, Agustín (2203) – Lanin, Boris Aleksandrovic (2205)2024½–½
Family
Queen's Gambit
Category
Closed
First move
1.d4
ECO
D20
Line
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 e5 4. Bxc4
GambitClassical
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From the archives

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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