Exact catalogue record
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein DefenseD20
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO D20, in volume D (closed and semi-closed queen-pawn openings).
On this page
- ECO code
- D20
- Opening family
- Queen's Gambit Accepted
- Recorded half-moves
- 6
- Last numbered move
- 3
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Black is ahead by 1 point
- FEN
- rnbqkbnr/pp2pppp/8/2p5/2pPP3/8/PP3PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 4
Scope of this record
This page preserves a source name, one exact legal move sequence and its resulting FEN. It does not claim that the sequence is best, common or strategically self-contained. Opening names can cover several move orders; the links below report only parent, continuation and family relationships present in this catalogue.
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Comes from
Main continuations
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense, Yefimov Gambit (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Linares Variation (D20)
Other records under Queen's Gambit Accepted
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Queen's Gambit Accepted (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Accelerated Mannheim 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, McDonnell Defense, Somov Gambit (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Modern Defense (D20)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Rubinstein Defense, Yefimov Gambit (D20)
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