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Tree path 12 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Accepted › Normal Variation › Queen's Gambit Accepted › Normal Variation › Traditional System › Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense › Normal Line › Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Main Line › Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System › Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System
  1. Chess Codex
  2. Queen's Pawn Game D00
  3. Queen's Gambit D06
  4. Queen's Gambit Accepted D20
  5. Normal Variation D21
  6. Queen's Gambit Accepted D23
  7. Normal Variation D25
  8. Traditional System D26
  9. Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense D26
  10. Normal Line D26
  11. Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Main Line D27
  12. Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System D28
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D28

Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D28, 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.

It begins with 14 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Qe2 b5 to reach the canonical position.

The line refines Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.

The line splits into 2 documented sub-systems: Main Line, Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical, Flohr Variation.

Together the deeper variations number 3 across the full subtree.

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ECO code
D28
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
14
Parent
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System
Direct variations
2
Total in subtree
3

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Variations (2)

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