Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Schwartz Defense
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.e4f5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Schwartz Defense11k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
55%5.9k64%
15%1.6k60%
13%1.4k65%
13%1.3k63%
2.3%24061%
1.4%14754%
0.3%3269%
0.1%956%
0.1%875%
0%438%
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D20
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 f5
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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