Exact catalogue record
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal VariationD21
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal Variation is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO D21, in volume D (closed and semi-closed queen-pawn openings).
On this page
- ECO code
- D21
- Opening family
- Queen's Gambit Accepted
- Recorded half-moves
- 5
- Last numbered move
- 3
- Side to move
- Black
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Black is ahead by 1 point
- FEN
- rnbqkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/8/2pP4/5N2/PP2PPPP/RNBQKB1R b KQkq - 1 3
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 (D23)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted: Alekhine Defense (D22)
- 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 (D21)
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 (D20)
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