D09 · Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Fianchetto Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e53.dxe5d44.Nf3Nc65.g3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Fianchetto Variation319k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
21%67k44%
9.4%30k39%
3.1%9.8k42%
2.7%8.7k43%
0.4%1.4k45%
0.3%92549%
0.3%88439%
Famous games in this line612 master games
Ivanchuk, Vassily (2769) – Morozevich, Alexander (2770)Gelfand, Boris (2709) – Morozevich, Alexander (2732)Van Wely, Loek (2617) – Morozevich, Alexander (2732)Khenkin, Igor (2610) – Morozevich, Alexander (2707)Dreev, Alexey (2704) – Nakamura, Hikaru (2613)Belous, V. (2584) – Morozevich, A. (2731)Grachev, Boris (2510) – Morozevich, Alexander (2721)Artemiev, V. (2706) – Potapov, P. (2515)Heroes of this opening Morozevich, Alexander · Van Wely, Loek · Artemiev, V.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D09
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. g3
GambitFianchettoClassical
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Fianchetto Variation, Be6 LineD09 5…Be6Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Fianchetto Variation, Bf5 LineD09 5…Bf5Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Fianchetto Variation, Bg4 LineD09 5…Bg4
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The Queen's Gambit appears in the earliest opening manuscripts (c. 1490, Göttingen). It anchored world-championship matches for a century — Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 was practically a Queen's Gambit theme event — and in 2020 a TV show made a 500-year-old pawn offer the most famous opening on the planet. It isn't even a real gambit: Black can't safely keep the pawn.
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