D29 · Queen's Gambit Accepted

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. O-O a6 7. Qe2 b5 8. Bb3 Bb7 9. Rd1 Nbd7 10. Nc3 Bd6
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The position after 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, White to move.

In the Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System, Smyslov Variation, aim to understand the plans and pawn structures, not just memorize the first moves.

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The Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System, Smyslov Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code D29. It is reached after the moves 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: 20 moves in, with White to play.

It belongs to the Queen's Gambit Accepted family — one of many ways the line can branch. Understanding the parent system’s plans is the fastest way to play this variation well.

Club players rarely lose the Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Alekhine System, Smyslov Variation in the opening itself. They lose it a few moves later, when the plan behind the moves runs out: that is what reading your own games in this line shows you.

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