Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Winawer Defense
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1.d4d52.c4dxc43.Nf3Nf64.e3Be6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Winawer Defense28k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
43%12k59%
15%4.3k53%
10%2.9k58%
8.2%2.3k59%
7.7%2.1k64%
5.3%1.5k59%
3.9%1.1k38%
2.1%59460%
1.4%39560%
1.3%36258%
Famous games in this line187 master games
Abdusattorov, Nodirbek (2767) – Praggnanandhaa, R. (2767)Vidit, S. (2708) – Praggnanandhaa, R. (2761)Ribli, Zoltan (2580) – Sokolov, Ivan (2663)Gledura, B. (2658) – Jobava, Ba (2578)Pelletier, Yannick (2604) – Bauer, Christian (2631)Swiercz, Dariusz (2522) – Navara, David (2708)Kuzubov, Yuriy (2554) – Sokolov, Ivan (2652)So, Wesley (2650) – Bojkov, Dejan (2556)- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D25
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Be6
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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