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Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Spassky Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e53.dxe5d44.e4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Spassky Variation83k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
61%50k49%
16%13k46%
11%9.4k45%
6.9%5.7k34%
1.5%1.2k51%
1.2%99047%
0.7%55739%
0.5%42843%
0.3%25847%
0.2%16343%
Famous games in this line29 master games
Mamedyarov, S. (2733) – Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. (2698)Dubov, Daniil (2638) – Potapov, Pavel (2460)Rustemov, Alexander (2564) – Koziak, Vitali (2486)Stocek, Jiri (2561) – Szoen, Dariusz (2452)Erdos, Viktor (2518) – Le Roux, Jean Pierre (2447)Khruschiov, Alexey (2504) – Khusnutdinov, Ruslan (2452)Markos, Jan (2596) – Hrabusa, Matej (2344)Kryakvin, D. (2529) – Pankov, Ger (2404)Heroes of this opening Rustemov, Alexander · Stocek, Jiri · Erdos, Viktor · Khusnutdinov, Ruslan
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D08
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. e4
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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