Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense

D20

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 e5

How it went

153 ours · 809 masters

White wins 49% Draws 12% Black wins 39%

Continuations

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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense, Somov Gambit D20 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 e5 4. Bxc4 1

Master games

Kasparov, Garry — Anand, Viswanathan 1/2-1/2 · 1999
Kasparov, Garry — Short, Nigel D 1/2-1/2 · 1994
Ding, Liren — Navara, David 1-0 · 2019
Ding, Liren — Yu, Yangyi 1/2-1/2 · 2019
Nepomniachtchi, I.. — Dominguez Perez, L.. 0-1 · 2022

Games in Spain

Duda,J (2724) — Estrada Nieto,J (2217) 1-0
Xiong,Jeffery (2709) — Estrada Nieto,J (2280) 1-0
Bluebaum,M (2698) — Estrada Nieto,J (2161) 1-0
Korobov,A (2688) — Garcia Ramos,Daniel (2367) 1-0
Shirov,A (2652) — Mussanti,D (2313) 1-0
Bluebaum,M (2651) — Estrada Nieto,J (2241) 1-0
Chigaev,M (2631) — Vorobiov,E (2475) 1-0
Shirov,A (2620) — Le,Minh Hoang (2213) 1-0

This line is also written

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 e5
1 d4 d5 2 c4 dxc4 3 e4 e5
d4 d5 c4 dxc4 e4 e5
d4, d5, c4, dxc4, e4, e5