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Queen's Pawn Game (A41)

1. d4 d6

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Queen's Pawn Game (ECO A41) is a chess opening starting with 1. d4 d6. See its main lines, common continuations, and win/draw/loss statistics from real games.

Common Continuations

Old Indian Defense

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Variations

Queen's Pawn GameA40 Queen's Pawn GameD00 Queen's Pawn GameD00 Queen's Pawn GameD00

Master games in this opening 189 games

Wilhelm Steinitz vs Paulsen, Louis1873 · Vienna1-0 Savielly Tartakower vs Spielmann, Rudolf1938 · Noordwijk½-½ Reshevsky, Samuel Herman vs Savielly Tartakower1950 · Amsterdam1-0 Vasily Smyslov vs Nezhmetdinov, Rashid1961 · URS-ch291-0 Vasily Smyslov vs Perez Perez, Francisco Jose1964 · Amsterdam Interzonal1-0 Vasily Smyslov vs Agdamus, Jose Luis1970 · Buenos Aires½-½ Vasily Smyslov vs Knaak, Rainer1972 · Skopje ol (Men) fin-A1-0 Vasily Smyslov vs Wade, Robert Graham1972 · Hastings72731-0 Hartoch, Robert G vs Mikhail Tal1973 · Hoogovens0-1 Visier Segovia, Fernando vs Mikhail Tal1977 · Las Palmas1-0 Meduna, Eduard vs Mikhail Tal1982 · Moscow½-½ Suba, Mihai vs Mikhail Tal1983 · Keres mem0-1