Why isn't the Queen's Gambit Accepted more often? - Chess Forums - Page 2

Professor_Gobbles · 2023-05-16T11:24:26-07:00

I see the vast majority of players above beginner level decline the Queen's Gambit. Is there a reason why? Black is completely fine if he accepts and has plenty of ways to play. It also could give you an advantage in theory if you know lines ahead of time.

asfafdgtrgrgrhg

Sep 29, 2023

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#21

QGD and Slav are very hard to play as Black. So I swithched to QGA. I won a game in an otb game against a seasoned active tournament player. He knew how to play but I have more experience in QGA online games so i know the plans more. I am fide unrated. I lost 3 of my white pieces games lots of Caro Kann players! Waaaa.

PaintedFanatic

Sep 30, 2023

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#22

TheSampson wrote:

Chess principles. Also, everyone tells them to decline it. You need to be careful if you play the QGA, while in the QGD, it's a quiet, boring game with no reason to worry or rush.

If you decline the gambit with e6, you commit to a solid center, prepare development and prepare to castle your king to safety after Nf6 and Be7. If you accept, you give the center and trade a center pawn for a flank pawn- which is a little bit unprincipled in an opening. You could argue that white trades a center pawn for a flank pawn in the Open Sicilian, a highly respected opening, but we don't talk about that.

Yes but black trading the c pawn for the d pawn in the Sicilian is almost impossible to avoid for white. Obviously there's c3 lines white can play, but the c3 Sicilian is not amazing for very concrete reasons

chessterd5

Sep 30, 2023

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#23

#25, I am learning the QGA and I find it a very interesting opening. IMHO, I think there are three reasons why there are more draws at higher 1) in a lot of the variations , the Queens can come off the board early. This does a lot for King safety and somewhat steers the game towards an early endgame. 2) whether the Queens come off or not, it leads to more equal positions, sometimes even symmetrical. and 3) At higher levels, the opponents themselves have more skills and experience navigating middlegame and endgame positions. some draws have nothing to do with the opening but understandin the chess that all openings eventually get to if the opponents survive the tactics and stay even as far as material exchanges.

asfafdgtrgrgrhg

Sep 30, 2023

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#24

Laskersnephew wrote:

The QGA is quite a decent opening, and even the strongest players i the world play it once in a while. There is no reason to avoid it

True. Kasparov deployed the Berlin Defense and Queen's Gambit Accepted against the very strong computer X3D Fritz. The computer could not beat Kasparov on QGA ended up in a draw. Kasparov was beaten with the Berlin Defense 1-0 by X3D Fritz.