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- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Accepted D20
- Normal Variation D21
- Queen's Gambit Accepted D23
- Normal Variation D25
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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Winawer Defense
Overview
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Winawer Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D25, Closed & Semi-Closed Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
It begins with 8 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Be6 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Accepted: Normal Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- D25
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 8
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Statistics from Lichess
36,459 games · White 53.4% / Draw 5.4% / Black 41.2%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 14,587 | |
| Qa4+ | 4,677 | |
| Na3 | 4,148 | |
| Ng5 | 3,799 | |
| Ne5 | 3,041 | |
| Nbd2 | 2,421 | |
| Bxc4 | 1,324 | |
| Qc2 | 856 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:55:40
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