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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal Variation
Overview
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D21, 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 5 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Accepted, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
The line has 6 documented children — Queen's Gambit Accepted, Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted: Godes Variation, and others being widely played.
Below the direct variations, the full subtree contains 31 documented sub-variations.
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- ECO code
- D21
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 5
- Parent
- Queen's Gambit Accepted
- Direct variations
- 6
- Total in subtree
- 31
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Variations (6)
Show all 31 sub-variations (full subtree)
- D23 Queen's Gambit Accepted 6-ply
- D22 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense 6-ply
- D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Godes Variation 6-ply
- D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Gunsberg Defense 6-ply
- D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Rosenthal Variation 6-ply
- D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Slav Gambit 6-ply
- D22 Alatortsev Variation 11-ply
- D21 Borisenko-Furman Variation 7-ply
- D22 Haberditz Variation 8-ply
- 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