Opening family
Queen's Gambit Accepted Lines and Variations
The Queen's Gambit Accepted family contains 51 named lines in this opening book, spanning ECO D20 to D29. Use this page as the map, then open individual lines for exact move orders and diagrams.
How to study this family
White
The gambit side must turn time and activity into concrete threats; if the initiative fades, the pawn deficit matters.
Black
The defending side should return material if needed to finish development and neutralize the initiative.
Start with the shortest line, then branch to the variations that change the pawn structure or tactical target. Memorizing every branch before understanding the family plan is usually wasted work.
Main named lines
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Accelerated Mannheim Variation
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Saduleto Variation
- D21 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal Variation
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Alekhine System
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Greco Variation
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Modern Defense
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Schwartz Defense
- D21 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Godes Variation
- D21 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Gunsberg Defense
- D21 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Rosenthal Variation
- D21 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Slav Gambit
- D22 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense
- D23 · Queen's Gambit Accepted
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, McDonnell Defense, Somov Gambit
- D21 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Borisenko-Furman Variation
- D23 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Mannheim Variation
- D24 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Showalter Variation
- D25 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal Variation
- D20 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense, Yefimov Gambit
- D22 · Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense, Haberditz Variation
Deep theory branches
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Qe2 b5 8. Bb3 Nc6 9. Rd1 c4 10. Bc2 Nb4 11. Nc3 Nxc2 12. Qxc2 Bb7 13. d5 Qc7 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical, Flohr Variation
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Qe2 b5 8. Bb3 Bb7 9. Rd1 Nbd7 10. Nc3 Bd6 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System, Smyslov Variation
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. Qe2 a6 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. O-O Nc6 9. e4 b5 10. e5 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical, Furman Variation
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Qe2 b5 8. Bb3 Bb7 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System, Main Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. dxc5 Bxc5 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Furman Variation
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Qe2 b5 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c5 5. d5 e6 6. e4 exd5 7. e5 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Gunsberg Defense, Prianishenmo Gambit
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. a4 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Rubinstein Variation
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bxc4 e6 5. Nf3 c5 6. O-O a6 7. e4 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Russian Gambit
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Qe2 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O Nc6 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Steinitz Variation, Development Variation
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O cxd4 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Steinitz Variation, Exchange Variation
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Main Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4 exd4 5. Qb3 Qe7 6. a3 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Billinger Gambit
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4 exd4 5. Qb3 Qe7 6. Nf3 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Christensen Gambit
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4 exd4 5. Qb3 Qe7 6. Kf1 — Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation, Korchnoi Gambit