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Queen's Gambit Accepted
Overview
Queen's Gambit Accepted belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D23, Closed & Semi-Closed Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
Play reaches this position via 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6, after 6 plies of opening development.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 3 documented sub-systems: Mannheim Variation, Normal Variation, Showalter Variation.
In total, the branch covers 22 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- D23
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 6
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 22
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Variations (3)
Show all 22 sub-variations (full subtree)
- D23 Mannheim Variation 7-ply
- D25 Normal Variation 7-ply
- D24 Showalter Variation 7-ply
- D24 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Bogoljubow Defense 9-ply
- D24 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Gunsberg Defense, Prianishenmo Gambit 13-ply
- D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Janowski-Larsen Variation 8-ply
- D26 Traditional System 8-ply
- D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Smyslov Variation 8-ply
- D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Winawer Defense 8-ply
- D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense 10-ply
- D26 Normal Line 11-ply
- D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical, Furman Variation 19-ply
- D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Main Line 12-ply
- D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Steinitz Variation, Development Variation 12-ply
- D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Steinitz Variation, Exchange Variation 12-ply
- D28 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System 13-ply
- D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Rubinstein Variation 13-ply
- D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Furman Variation 14-ply
- D28 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System 14-ply
- D29 Main Line 16-ply
- D28 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical, Flohr Variation 26-ply
- D29 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System, Smyslov Variation 20-ply