Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Balogh Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e53.dxe5d44.Nf3Nc65.Nbd2Qe7
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Balogh Variation2.0k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
73%1.5k51%
12%23759%
10%20746%
1.7%3566%
1.6%3225%
0.5%1075%
0.3%617%
0.2%520%
0.2%540%
0.2%425%
Famous games in this line8 master games
Grandelius, N. (2643) – Tikkanen, H. (2535)Sakaev, Konstantin (2607) – Nabaty, Tamir (2526)Tikkanen, Hans (2469) – Nabaty, Tamir (2523)Yalov, Shimon (2366) – Leupold, Volker (2547)Brunner, Nicolas (2415) – Amigues, Emmanuel (2355)Gillam, Simon Robert (2291) – Vivante-Sowter, John (2337)Bai, Jinshi (2250) – Li, Hanbin (2277)Tschann, S. (2208) – Thiel, T. (2297)Heroes of this opening Sakaev, Konstantin · Tikkanen, Hans · Yalov, Shimon · Brunner, Nicolas
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D08
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 Qe7
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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