A40: Queen's pawn

1. d4

Queen's pawn

A40 Sub-variants:

Queen's pawn
1. d4

Queen's pawn, Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defence
1. d4 Nc6

Queen's pawn, Charlick (Englund) gambit
1. d4 e5

Queen's pawn, Englund gambit
1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Qe7 4. Qd5 f6 5. exf6 Nxf6

Queen's pawn, English defence
1. d4 b6

Polish defence
1. d4 b5

Queen's pawn
1. d4 e6

Queen's pawn, Keres defence
1. d4 e6 2. c4 b6

Queen's pawn, Franco-Indian (Keres) defence
1. d4 e6 2. c4 Bb4+

Modern defence
1. d4 g6

Beefeater defence
1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 c5 4. d5 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 f5

Overview

Games on Database:

1252549

Last Played:

Apr 2025

Overall score:

37.6%

34.1%

28.3%

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Played frequently by:

White
Ivan Farago	1797 games
Aleksey Dreev	1577 games
Loek Van Wely	1401 games

Black
Viktor Korchnoi	841 games
Vassily Ivanchuk	751 games
Viswanathan Anand	730 games

Possible continuations:

1... Nf6

706814

36.2 %

34.7 %

29.1 %

1... d5

349408

39.6 %

35.1 %

25.3 %

1... e6

57114

38.4 %

32.9 %

28.7 %

1... f5

41127

40.1 %

29.2 %

30.7 %

1... g6

35538

37.9 %

29.5 %

32.6 %

1... d6

33785

36.6 %

32.2 %

31.1 %

1... c5

17210

39.9 %

27 %

33.2 %

1... c6

3499

47.2 %

28.1 %

24.7 %

1... Nc6

3010

45 %

25 %

30 %

1... b6

2040

45.1 %

24.2 %

30.7 %

1... e5

1290

49 %

18 %

33 %

1... b5

1264

46 %

22.2 %

31.8 %

1... a6

206

36.9 %

27.2 %

35.9 %

1... h6

94

47.9 %

22.3 %

29.8 %

1... Na6

72

33.3 %

34.7 %

31.9 %

1... f6

32

56.3 %

31.3 %

1... a5

20

65 %

20 %

15 %

1... g5

13

61.5 %

30.8 %

1... h5

12

75 %

25 %