D06 · Closed · a plan for White

Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Attack, Salvio Countergambit

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1.d4d52.c4c53.dxc5d4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Attack, Salvio Countergambit236k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
64%150k49%
21%50k50%
7.3%17k51%
2%4.8k52%
2%4.7k46%
1.1%2.6k44%
0.7%1.5k46%
0.6%1.4k45%
0.5%1.2k49%
0.2%48046%
Famous games in this line15 master games
Van Wely, Loek (2675)Smeets, Jan (2647)2011½–½Nakamura, Hikaru (2520)Glek, Igor V (2576)20031–0Socko, B.. (2619)Smith, Ax (2461)20201–0Georgiev, Vladimir (2581)Zaitsev, Mikhail (2476)2008½–½Moiseenko, Va (2475)Ulibin, M. (2501)20141–0Brumen, Dinko (2403)Mufic, Goran (2372)2000½–½Siddhanth Poonja (2315)Jai Sankar Subramanian (2283)20251–0Becker, Marcel (2225)Zaitsev, Mikhail (2370)19990–1
Heroes of this opening Nakamura, Hikaru · Socko, B.. · Moiseenko, Va · Siddhanth Poonja
Category
Closed
First move
1.d4
ECO
D06
Line
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5 3. dxc5 d4
GambitAggressiveClassical
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The Queen's Gambit appears in the earliest opening manuscripts (c. 1490, Göttingen). It anchored world-championship matches for a century — Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 was practically a Queen's Gambit theme event — and in 2020 a TV show made a 500-year-old pawn offer the most famous opening on the planet. It isn't even a real gambit: Black can't safely keep the pawn.

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