Queen's Gambit
1.d4 d5 2.c4 · you play white
3 chapters, 8 moves deep, get you to 92% of what you will actually meet. The other 2 cover the last 4%.
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At your level
Level
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Depth
16 plies of this opening
Chapters
3
Decisions
354 of 448
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How this goes wrong at your level
Counted from 4,500,000 games by players in your band. These are moves that get played often and then lose — no engine was asked for an opinion.
What you are most likely to fall for
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nc3 Nc6
e4 — played 12% of the time here.
You score 45% after it, against 58% for everything else played from this position, over 343 games.
Instead:
d5
61%
e3
59%
Nf3
56%
1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.cxd5 Qxd5
Nc3 — played 16% of the time here.
You score 40% after it, against 55% for everything else played from this position, over 227 games.
Instead:
e3
59%
Nf3
54%
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 d4 4.e3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 dxe3
Bxb4 — played 38% of the time here.
You score 12% after it, against 48% for everything else played from this position, over 93 games.
Instead:
fxe3
49%
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.cxd5 exd5
Nxd5 — played 27% of the time here.
You score 25% after it, against 56% for everything else played from this position, over 73 games.
Instead:
Nf3
64%
e3
53%
1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bg4
e3 — played 4% of the time here.
You score 3% after it, against 50% for everything else played from this position, over 34 games.
Instead:
Nf3
56%
f3
54%
cxd5
54%
What your opponents fall for
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3
b5 — played 18% of the time here.
They score 32% after it, against 45% for everything else played from this position, over 1,864 games.
They should play:
g6
53%
Nd7
50%
a6
49%
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 b5 4.a4
c6 — played 58% of the time here.
They score 24% after it, against 37% for everything else played from this position, over 884 games.
They should play:
bxa4
40%
Ba6
38%
Bd7
35%
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c6 5.Nf3
h6 — played 6% of the time here.
They score 36% after it, against 48% for everything else played from this position, over 270 games.
They should play:
Bd6
54%
Nbd7
53%
dxc4
52%
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 b5 4.a4 c6 5.axb5 cxb5 6.Qf3
Qb6 — played 7% of the time here.
They score 1% after it, against 21% for everything else played from this position, over 44 games.
They should play:
Nc6
29%
e6
22%
Bd7
22%
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 b5 4.a4 c6 5.axb5 cxb5 6.Qf3
Qa5+ — played 5% of the time here.
They score 3% after it, against 20% for everything else played from this position, over 30 games.
They should play:
Nc6
29%
e6
22%
Bd7
22%
Found by testing 94,688 decisions in your band’s games and keeping only those where the drop in score is more than four standard errors below the alternatives. About 3.17 of these would be expected by chance alone.
Your moves are chosen by the engine and checked against 3,439,091 games (Lichess Elite (2500+ vs 2300+), 2024-12 → 2025-11); their replies are what people actually play. Evaluations from Lichess Stockfish evaluations (database.lichess.org) (CC0 1.0 Universal), covering 87% of this course.