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Queen's Pawn Game refer to any chess opening which starts with 1.d4, the second most popular opening move, but is now usually used to describe openings where White opens with 1.d4 but does not follow through with an early pawn advance to c4. Some of these openings have individual names as well.

In the 1800s and early 1900s, 1.e4 was by far the most common opening move by White, while the different openings starting with 1.d4 were considered somewhat unusual and therefore classed together as "Queen's Pawn Game".

As the merits of 1.d4 started to be explored it was the Queen's Gambit which was played most often; more popular than all other 1.d4 openings combined. The term "Queen's Pawn Game" was then narrowed down to any opening with 1.d4 which was not a Queen's Gambit. Eventually, through the efforts of the hypermodernists, the various Indian Defences, such as the King's Indian, Nimzo-Indian and Queen's Indian, became more popular, and as these openings were named, the term "Queen's Pawn Game" narrowed further.

According to Chessbase, white chances are about 58%

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Contributors : Thibault de Vassal

[ECO "A40"] [Opening "Queen's pawn"]

Nf6 : 3738 games, White ELO av : 1781, Black ELO av : 1790
1-0 : 39.3% , 1/2-1/2 : 19.1% , 0-1 : 41.6%

d5 : 2858 games, White ELO av : 1695, Black ELO av : 1683
1-0 : 47.4% , 1/2-1/2 : 13.9% , 0-1 : 38.7%

f5 : 345 games, White ELO av : 1648, Black ELO av : 1659
1-0 : 48% , 1/2-1/2 : 10.9% , 0-1 : 41.1%

e6 : 301 games, White ELO av : 1632, Black ELO av : 1605
1-0 : 55.5% , 1/2-1/2 : 6.4% , 0-1 : 38.1%

g6 : 117 games, White ELO av : 1668, Black ELO av : 1645
1-0 : 57.8% , 1/2-1/2 : 6.9% , 0-1 : 35.3%

d6 : 96 games, White ELO av : 1665, Black ELO av : 1652
1-0 : 57.9% , 1/2-1/2 : 7.4% , 0-1 : 34.7%

c5 : 69 games, White ELO av : 1642, Black ELO av : 1654
1-0 : 48.4% , 1/2-1/2 : 4.8% , 0-1 : 46.8%

c6 : 56 games, White ELO av : 1536, Black ELO av : 1538
1-0 : 46.3% , 1/2-1/2 : 9.3% , 0-1 : 44.4%

b6 : 29 games, White ELO av : 1609, Black ELO av : 1644
1-0 : 37% , 1/2-1/2 : 14.8% , 0-1 : 48.1%

Nc6 : 26 games, White ELO av : 1423, Black ELO av : 1317
1-0 : 80.8% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 19.2%

e5 : 22 games, White ELO av : 1489, Black ELO av : 1488
1-0 : 66.7% , 1/2-1/2 : 4.8% , 0-1 : 28.6%

a6 : 7 games, White ELO av : 1466, Black ELO av : 1363
1-0 : 71.4% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 28.6%

h5 : 5 games, White ELO av : 1583, Black ELO av : 1640
1-0 : 100% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 0%

h6 : 4 games, White ELO av : 1505, Black ELO av : 1607
1-0 : 50% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 50%

f6 : 3 games, White ELO av : 1612, Black ELO av : 1443
1-0 : 100% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 0%

Nh6 : 1 game, White ELO av : 1212, Black ELO av : 1400
1-0 : 100% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 0%

b5 : 1 game, White ELO av : 1400, Black ELO av : 1076
1-0 : 0% , 1/2-1/2 : 0% , 0-1 : 100%

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