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Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit
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1.d4d52.c4e5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit5.1M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
55%2.8M52%
15%786k51%
13%649k51%
12%633k52%
3.4%177k51%
0.5%25k49%
0.2%11k40%
0.2%11k50%
0.2%9.2k47%
0%1.6k19%
Famous games in this line1.5k master games
Mamedyarov, S. (2809) – Nepomniachtchi, I. (2751)Ivanchuk, Vassily (2769) – Morozevich, Alexander (2770)Grischuk, A. (2766) – Nepomniachtchi, I. (2757)Grischuk, A. (2766) – Nepomniachtchi, I. (2757)Gelfand, Boris (2738) – Morozevich, Alexander (2770)Topalov, Veselin (2757) – Morozevich, Alexander (2741)Gelfand, Boris (2719) – Radjabov, Teimour (2751)Le Quang, Liem (2693) – Morozevich, Alexander (2770)Heroes of this opening Grischuk, A. · Morozevich, Alexander
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D08
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5
GambitClassical
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Go deeper — named lines from here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Normal Line3.dxe5 d4 4.Nf3 · 9 deeper linesQueen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Spassky Variation3.dxe5 d4 4.e4Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Tartakower Defense3.dxe5 d4 4.Nf3 c5Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Modern Line3.dxe5 d4 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Nbd2 · 3 deeper lines
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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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