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Queen's Gambit Accepted Powerbook 2025

The basis for the Queen's Gambit Accepted Powerbook 2025 consists of 242 000 engine games as well as 58 000 games from Mega 2025 + Correspondence Database 2024. In the Queen’s Gambit Accepted 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 Black is not seeking to win a pawn, but the early capture on c4 rather represents an attempt to rapidly become active on the queenside and then to contest White’s centre – mainly with ...c5, but sometimes also with ...e5.

One of the most important basic positions arises after 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.0-0 a6. Now White has available to him many natural moves such as 7.a4, 7.Bb3, 7.dxc5 and 7.Qe2. One of the “secret weapons” has been 7.b3!?

After 7...cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bd6 9.Bb2 0-0 10.Bd3!? there exist in “humanoid” chess only a few correspondence games, but in the Powerbook you can study the possible variations based on 461 games. In the last years the reply 7...Nbd7 became much more popular leading to a more equal position so this might be a path Black players want to explore against 7.b3!

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Queen's Gambit Accepted

A third and very different possibility is 2...dxc4, the Queen’s Gambit Accepted. Black immediately resolves the central tension set up with 2.c4. But in doing so by capturing away from the centre, he does concede to White a 2:1 pawn majority in the middle of the board (d- and e-pawns against e-pawn). At the same time, there is no sensible way for Black to defend the c4-pawn, so that in the strictest sense of the term the Queen’s Gambit is not a real gambit. The principled way for White is now 3.e4, meaning that he immediately forms the “ideal” centre – i. e. pawns on d4 and e4. Black will attack this centre with his pawns and/or pieces, aiming to force the exchange or advance of if possible one of these white pawns. He has the choice between 3...c5, 3...e5, 3...Nc6 and 3...Nf6, after which early complications can develop.

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