Tree path 6 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Accepted › Saduleto Variation › Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense › Somov Gambit
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense, Somov Gambit
Overview
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense, Somov Gambit 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.
The line arises from 7 plies — specifically the moves 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 e5 4. Bxc4.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense, 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
- 7
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