Queen's Gambit Accepted
Black takes on c4. White will spend a move or two recovering the pawn or seizing the center with e4, and Black will try to hold the pawn or give it back for easy development. The lines here are the named ways of doing that.
Play the main line
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Queen's Gambit Accepted
Play the next move in the line.
- d4
- d5
- c4
- dxc4
Move by move
- White pawn moves from d2 to d4.
- Black pawn moves from d7 to d5.
- White pawn moves from c2 to c4.
- Black pawn captures on c4.
Variations
Accelerated Mannheim Variation1 lines · D20Central Variation7 lines · D20Linares Variation1 lines · D20Old Variation5 lines · D20Saduleto Variation1 lines · D20Schwartz Defense1 lines · D20Alekhine Defense4 lines · D21 to D22Godes Variation1 lines · D21Gunsberg Defense2 lines · D21 to D24Normal Variation8 lines · D21 to D26Rosenthal Variation1 lines · D21Slav Gambit1 lines · D21Mannheim Variation3 lines · D23Bogoljubow Defense1 lines · D24Showalter Variation1 lines · D24Janowski-Larsen Variation1 lines · D25Smyslov Variation1 lines · D25Winawer Defense1 lines · D25Classical Defense15 lines · D26 to D29Classical2 lines · D26 to D28Furman Variation1 lines · D27
Named gambits and traps
59 lines in this family have "gambit" or "trap" in the name. The list shows 24.
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Accelerated Mannheim Variation (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Alekhine System (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Greco Variation (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense, Somov Gambit (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Modern Defense (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense, Yefimov Gambit (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Linares Variation (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Billinger Gambit (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Christensen Gambit (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Korchnoi Gambit (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Novikov Gambit (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Saduleto Variation (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Schwartz Defense (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Borisenko-Furman Variation (D21)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense (D22)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Alatortsev Variation (D22)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Haberditz Variation (D22)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Godes Variation (D21)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Gunsberg Defense (D21)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Gunsberg Defense, Prianishenmo Gambit (D24)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal Variation (D21)
Puzzles from this opening
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Find the move.