Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Modern Line
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1.d4d52.c4e53.dxe5d44.Nf3Nc65.Nbd2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Modern Line162k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
36%58k46%
22%36k46%
17%27k41%
8.3%13k46%
7.2%12k42%
2%3.3k37%
1.6%2.6k43%
0.4%56849%
Famous games in this line156 master games
Grischuk, A. (2766) – Nepomniachtchi, I. (2757)Grischuk, A. (2766) – Nepomniachtchi, I. (2757)Van Wely, Loek (2681) – Morozevich, Alexander (2765)Sokolov, Ivan (2685) – Morozevich, Alexander (2741)Ivanisevic, Ivan (2664) – Khenkin, Igor (2655)Wojtaszek, R. (2668) – L'Ami, E. (2627)Nielsen, Peter Heine (2653) – Nevednichy, Vladislav (2566)Drozdovskij, Yuri (2627) – Bauer, Christian (2590)Heroes of this opening Grischuk, A. · Morozevich, Alexander · Ivanisevic, Ivan · Wojtaszek, R.
- 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
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Balogh Variation5…Qe7Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Janowski Variation5…f6Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Krenosz Variation5…Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Nxf3 Bb4 8.Bd2 …
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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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