Tree path 5 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Accepted › Old Variation › Novikov Gambit
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Accepted D20
- Old Variation D20
- Novikov Gambit D20 you are here
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Novikov Gambit
Overview
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Novikov 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.
Play reaches this position via 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4 exd4 5. Qb3 Qe7 6. Nd2, after 11 plies of opening development.
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
- D20
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 11
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