Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Novikov Gambit
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.e3e54.Bxc4exd45.Qb3Qe76.Nd2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Novikov Gambit14 games · Black to move
Only 14 games reach this position at this level — read it loosely.
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
93%1331%
7.1%1100%
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D20
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4 exd4 5. Qb3 Qe7 6. Nd2
GambitClassical
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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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