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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.e4e5
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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense807k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
67%540k52%
24%190k57%
1.9%15k48%
0.4%3.0k45%
0.3%2.7k47%
0.3%2.2k35%
0%15147%
0%11451%
0%9418%
Famous games in this line2.6k master games
Kasparov, Garry (2812) – Anand, Viswanathan (2781)So, W. (2776) – Aronian, L. (2765)Ding Liren (2801) – Yu Yangyi (2738)Ding Liren (2805) – Navara, D. (2734)Firouzja, Alireza (2766) – Praggnanandhaa, R. (2767)Grischuk, A. (2771) – Radjabov, T. (2756)Radjabov, Teimour (2744) – Ivanchuk, Vassily (2781)Karpov, Anatoly (2760) – Anand, Viswanathan (2765)Heroes of this opening So, W. · Ding Liren
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D20
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 e5
Classical
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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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