Whitcomb Chess Castle

The Queen Pawn Opening (d4)

The queen pawn openings were not as popular as king pawn openings during most of the 19th Century. The queen’s gambit, however, did become popular from the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s.

 

Black has several popular replies, the most common including d5 and Nf6.

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