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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Godes Variation
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.Nf3Nd7
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Godes Variation26k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
31%8.0k56%
27%7.0k56%
24%6.0k54%
9.6%2.5k57%
2.4%60153%
1.9%49057%
1.6%39754%
1%25455%
0.4%10752%
0.4%10661%
Famous games in this line46 master games
Giri, A. (2782) – Mamedyarov, S. (2801)Dubov, Daniil (2720) – Piorun, K. (2641)Farago, Ivan (2505) – Kovacevic, Vlatko (2555)Mikhalevski, Victor (2524) – Zilberman, Yaacov (2467)Petursson, Margeir (2535) – Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel (2445)Miles, Anthony J (2555) – Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel (2415)Boensch, Uwe (2525) – Godes, Dmitry R (2430)Gavrikov, Viktor (2365) – Gulko, Boris F (2590)Heroes of this opening Dubov, Daniil · Farago, Ivan · Petursson, Margeir · Miles, Anthony J
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D21
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nd7
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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