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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Alekhine System

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Alekhine System belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D20, 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. e4 Nf6, after 6 plies of opening development.

The line refines Queen's Gambit Accepted: Saduleto Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
D20
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
6
Parent
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Saduleto Variation

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