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Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Tartakower Defense
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1.d4d52.c4e53.dxe5d44.Nf3c5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Tartakower Defense222k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
43%95k56%
19%43k55%
7.8%17k53%
7.4%16k52%
6.5%14k49%
5.5%12k50%
4.9%11k53%
1.9%4.2k47%
1.2%2.7k49%
0.9%1.9k50%
Famous games in this line3 master games
Gonzalez Vidal, Yuri (2523) – Alvarez Pedraza, Aramis (2490)Gusev, Alek (2423) – Ponomarenko, Vi (2247)Heinig, Wolfram (2270) – Starck, Bodo (2310)Heroes of this opening Gonzalez Vidal, Yuri · Gusev, Alek · Heinig, Wolfram
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D08
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 c5
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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