Tree path 6 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit › Normal Line › Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Modern Line › Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Janowski Variation
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit D08
- Normal Line D08
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Modern Line D08
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Janowski Variation
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Janowski Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D08, 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 10 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 f6 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit, Modern Line, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- D08
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 10
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