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Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Krenosz Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e53.dxe5d44.Nf3Nc65.Nbd2Bg46.h3Bxf37.Nxf3Bb4+8.Bd2Qe7
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Krenosz Variation733 games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
66%48148%
25%18452%
4%2947%
1.6%1267%
0.8%675%
0.7%50%
0.5%425%
0.5%450%
0.5%463%
0.3%20%
Famous games in this line7 master games
Illescas Cordoba, Miguel (2607) – Fluvia Poyatos, Joan (2464)Moskalenko, Viktor (2523) – Cruz, Jonathan (2418)Van der Stricht, Geert (2450) – Vandevoort, Pascal (2353)Miralles, Gilles (2430) – Pergericht, Daniel (2325)Drozdovskij, Yuri (2415) – Bliumberg, Vladislav (2310)Sriram, Jha (2417) – Von Bahr, Oskar (2304)Meessen, Rudolf (2316) – Henris, Luc (2285)Heroes of this opening Illescas Cordoba, Miguel · Moskalenko, Viktor · Van der Stricht, Geert · Miralles, Gilles
- 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 Bg4 6. h3 Bxf3 7. Nxf3 Bb4+ 8. Bd2 Qe7
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Nearby lines in the family
Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense, Exchange Variation2…e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bg5 …Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System, Main Line2…dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 …Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense, Makogonov Exchange Variation2…e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bg5 …
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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