Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit is often played chess opening and classified under the ECO codes D06 to D69.

The Hauptzugfolge is:

1 d2 -d4 d7 -d5 2 c2 - c4

The basic idea of ​​the Queen's Gambit is to replace the white c-pawn against the slightly stronger black d-pawn and to giving us a peasant majority in the center.

In this position, the following trains are popular:

  • 2 ... e7 - e6 ( Queen's Gambit Declined )
  • 2 ... c7 - c6 ( Slav Defence )
  • 2 ... d5xc4 ( Queen's Gambit Accepted )
  • 2 ... Sb8 - c6 ( Chigorin Defence )

More rarely be played:

  • 2 ... e7 - e5 ( Albin counter-gambit )
  • 2 ... c7 - c5 ( Balanced Version )
  • 2 ... Ng8 - f6 (Marshall - defense )
  • 2 ... Bc8 - f5 ( Keres - defense )

Variants of the Queen's Gambit arise in the tournament practice often by transpositions, such as when White starts with 1 d2 -d4 and 2 Sg1 -f3 and later 3 c2 - c4 takes. On the other hand, Black 1 d2 -d4 answer with 1 ... Ng8 - f6 and ... c7 - c6 and ... d7 -d5 or ... e7 - e6 and ... can later follow d7 -d5.

Queen's Gambit Declined Slav Defense Queen's Gambit Accepted Chigorin Defense Albin Countergambit Marshall Defense Transposition (chess) Jerzy Konikowski
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