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:

1256535

Last Played:

Jul 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

709362

36.2 %

34.7 %

29.1 %

1... d5

350552

39.6 %

35.1 %

25.3 %

1... e6

57220

38.4 %

32.9 %

28.7 %

1... f5

41169

40.1 %

29.2 %

30.7 %

1... g6

35593

37.9 %

29.5 %

32.6 %

1... d6

33853

36.6 %

32.3 %

31.1 %

1... c5

17219

39.9 %

26.9 %

33.2 %

1... c6

3504

47.2 %

28.1 %

24.7 %

1... Nc6

3011

44.9 %

25 %

30 %

1... b6

2042

45.2 %

24.1 %

30.7 %

1... e5

1290

49 %

18 %

33 %

1... b5

1266

46.1 %

22.2 %

31.8 %

1... a6

210

36.2 %

27.1 %

36.7 %

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 %