Queen's Gambit

I have played it a thousand times, read books on it & I am still confused.

From white's perspective, what is the advantage of the Queen's gambit when:

1) Accepted

2) Declined

I will follow up with  black's perspective after I digest white's approach.

Thanks,

Dr. Jack

ur question , i believe , requires more than ordinary opening book , try to have a look in Hans Berliner "the system" , (not to be confused with nimzowisch my system) aside from that the fact that the book is trying to convince u that 1.d4 is the best white move and claiming he reached a closed form solution to chess, he will answer ur question on some scientific basis what r the advantages of white

Hello,

In the queen's gambit declined the bishop on c8 is very bad (it is blocked by the pawn on e6) and white can easily place his pieces on the best squares. In general white is much more active.

In the queen's gambit accepted white has at least an extra centre pawn. So if black doesn't play well, white will have a big advantage in the centre.

Greetings,

Jurjen

Thanks to Jurjen & Leo for your speedy replies. Talk about the true international language, a doctor in the US dicscusses chess with the Netherlands & Egypt. Amazing!

talking about international 2 days ago we had conference call with 3 persons the first in usa time 8 pm sunday evening  the second egypt time 2 am monday morning and the third australia time 9 am monday morning...literaly the guy in australia was speaking to the past...multo amazing

Very cool, a sort of time travel..What do you do in Egypt? I trained with several docs from Egypt, very bright.

i am a civil engineer, originally, now i work in a managerial pos. in a food processing co.

Yeah, this global networking is great.

I believe that, for white, the point is to take control of the center, whether black accepts or declines, by trading off a side-pawn (c-pawn) for a black central pawn (d-pawn). I have heard that the difference between e4 and d4 is that e4 is more aggressive and attacking while d4 aims to control the center first and than attack.