Queens Gambit

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JOBGUERRERO

I find queens gambit an interesting opening special when using white pieces.  Can you tell some strenght and weakness of the opening move?

BillyIdle

That is a very big topic not many will answer here. 

First of all the Queen's Gambit consists of two moves for White, not one move.  White must play both 1.d4 and 2.c4 or you have no gambit.

Secondly, the Queen's Gambit is divided roughly into (1) the Queen's Gambit Declined (and Accepted) and into (2) the Indian System Defenses like the King's Indian, Benoni, Benko Counter Gambit, Modern Defense, Nimzo-Indian/ Queen's Indian complex and Grunfeld Defense. Then (3)  the Irregular defenses such as the Dutch Defense, Budapest Defense, Chigorin Defense, Albin Counter Gambit and others.

   I have tried to break it down into three seperate parts, but you need to be a lot more specific with your questions to gain any knowlede of the queenside openings.

dsarkar
JOBGUERRERO wrote:

...  Can you tell some strenght and weakness of the opening move?


 Please see some explanatory opening book, e.g.: "More Basic Chess Endings" by Gabor Kallai - there are a lot of others.

leo8160
BillyIdle wrote:

That is a very big topic not many will answer here. 

First of all the Queen's Gambit consists of two moves for White, not one move.  White must play both 1.d4 and 2.c4 or you have no gambit.

Secondly, the Queen's Gambit is divided roughly into (1) the Queen's Gambit Declined (and Accepted) and into (2) the Indian System Defenses like the King's Indian, Benoni, Benko Counter Gambit, Modern Defense, Nimzo-Indian/ Queen's Indian complex and Grunfeld Defense. Then (3)  the Irregular defenses such as the Dutch Defense, Budapest Defense, Chigorin Defense, Albin Counter Gambit and others.

   I have tried to break it down into three seperate parts, but you need to be a lot more specific with your questions to gain any knowlede of the queenside openings.


leo8160

the above is not actually accurate the Queens Gambit doesnt include the indian system , in fact some lines of the indian systems may transpose to QGD if black wants , but in general there are 2 main families or Main roads , the first is the Queen gambit characterized by 1. d4 d5 2.c4   the other is the indian defences 1.d4 Nf6  2. c4  since if there is no 1......d5 either in the first move or little later there is no gambit

leo8160

now in the queen gambit there are 3 main roads 1) the Queen Gambit Declined QGD  1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6    2) Queen Gambit Accepted QGA  1.d4 d5 2. c4  dxc4    or 3) Slav defence 2....c6  and semi Slav 2.....c6  3......e6   and some offbeats other than the above if black second move is different from the above second replies

flarevire
leo8160 wrote:
BillyIdle wrote:

That is a very big topic not many will answer here. 

First of all the Queen's Gambit consists of two moves for White, not one move.  White must play both 1.d4 and 2.c4 or you have no gambit.

Secondly, the Queen's Gambit is divided roughly into (1) the Queen's Gambit Declined (and Accepted) and into (2) the Indian System Defenses like the King's Indian, Benoni, Benko Counter Gambit, Modern Defense, Nimzo-Indian/ Queen's Indian complex and Grunfeld Defense. Then (3)  the Irregular defenses such as the Dutch Defense, Budapest Defense, Chigorin Defense, Albin Counter Gambit and others.

   I have tried to break it down into three seperate parts, but you need to be a lot more specific with your questions to gain any knowlede of the queenside openings.



JOBGUERRERO

So much to thanks to billyidle, leo8160, and dsarkar.  I'm really interested to learn variations of this gambit but, still unknowlegeable about your coments.  I can promise you to check details on points you discussed to strenghten my game style.  And, I wish I you could invite me for a game.  This might be a great experience for me. thanks a lot again.