Queen's Pawn Game: Hübsch Gambit
Overview
Queen's Pawn Game: Hübsch Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D00, 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 is reached after 5 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e4.
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- ECO code
- D00
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 5
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Statistics from Lichess
1,441,509 games · White 50.1% / Draw 4.0% / Black 45.8%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| dxe4 | 1,066,314 | |
| Nxe4 | 152,911 | |
| e6 | 121,040 | |
| c6 | 42,289 | |
| Nc6 | 16,633 | |
| Bg4 | 15,070 | |
| c5 | 9,741 | |
| g6 | 7,157 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:13:52
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