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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense, Yefimov Gambit
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.e4c54.d5b5
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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense, Yefimov Gambit21k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
58%12k63%
23%4.8k55%
6.6%1.4k55%
4.7%97955%
2.7%56248%
2.4%50648%
0.7%13643%
0.6%12854%
0.2%4661%
0.2%3944%
Famous games in this line7 master games
Zabotin, Alexander (2486) – Grishchenko, Sergey (2440)Tunik, Gennady (2460) – Chernitsin, Ivan (2375)Timoscenko, Gennadij (2540) – Dudas, Jan (2290)Hsu, Li Yang (2390) – Ardiansyah, Haji (2415)Loeffler, Stefan (2375) – Efimov, Igor (2405)Sammalvuo, Tapani (2395) – Tiitta, Sauli (2205)Horvath, Mario (2270) – Dudas, Jan (2315)Heroes of this opening Zabotin, Alexander · Tunik, Gennady · Dudas, Jan · Hsu, Li Yang
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D20
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 c5 4. d5 b5
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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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