Accept the gambit. Develop fast. Don't try keeping the pawn. QGA... best kept secret in Chess. A better defence than QGD.
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there are many versions of the queen's gambit that white can employ using various move orders. normally he does this to avoid black's best defenses. he can't avoid all, but then as black you have to know how to reach your desired setup against various move order tricks. personally i would just say that there may be easier to play positions than others in the whole queen's gambit complex, but nothing is easy to play per se. i have played the setup with be7, nbd7, h6, 00, b6, c5, bb7 and eventually ne4 and c5, and normally you can reach it fairly easily. a more universal setup is the tarrasch with d5, c5, e6, nf6, and when white takes on d5 either take with the knight, or take with the pawn. this one has the advantage that it can be played virtually against anything except 1 e4 and maybe some other wild first move. it also promises free piece play, although of course nothing is free so black compromises either his pawn structure or his central presence in return. i think it would help if you have some moves on a board so other people can identify which line you want to fight against.