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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Mannheim Variation
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.Nf3Nf64.Qa4+
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Mannheim Variation59k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
37%22k42%
28%16k45%
26%15k46%
5.8%3.4k49%
3.5%2.0k41%
0.2%13644%
0.1%5733%
Famous games in this line766 master games
Carlsen, M. (2839) – Caruana, F. (2789)Carlsen, M. (2861) – Aronian, L. (2759)Carlsen, M. (2839) – Vachier Lagrave, M. (2727)Rapport, R. (2763) – Dominguez Perez, L. (2758)Ivanchuk, Vassily (2786) – Dominguez Perez, Leinier (2719)Radjabov, Teimour (2793) – Bologan, Viktor (2681)Ivanchuk, Vassily (2717) – Ponomariov, Ruslan (2727)Mamedyarov, S. (2817) – Timofeev, Arty (2589)Heroes of this opening Caruana, F. · Carlsen, M. · Bologan, Viktor · Mamedyarov, S.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D23
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qa4+
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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