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- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Accepted D20
- Old Variation D20
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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Russian Gambit
Overview
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Russian Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D27, 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 is reached after 13 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bxc4 e6 5. Nf3 c5 6. O-O a6 7. e4.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- D27
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 13
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