Opening name: Queen's Pawn Opening
Opening line: 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3
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Winning percentages
White: 1680 (30.75%)
Black: 1885 (34.5%)
Draws: 1898 (34.74%)
2.Nc3
White develops his Queen's Knight to support 3. e4, sometimes called the Veresov Opening. After Black's usual reply 2. ... d5, White may respond with 3. Bg5, leading to the Richter-Veresov Attack. Often transposes into the Chigorin Defence, the French Defence, or less commonly the Pirc Defence.
This position may also be reached via the move order 1.Nc3 Nf6 2.d4
Most popular responses
2...d5 (Richter-Veresov Attack) Lichess Analysis - Wikibooks (23639114 games)
2...g6 (Pirc) Lichess Analysis - Wikibooks (5499030 games)
Engine Evaluation
Depth: 47
Score: -0.03
Best Move: d5
PV Line: 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bf4 e6 4. Nb5 Na6 5. e3 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Be2
Historical games for Queen's Pawn Opening
| Game | Result | Year |
| Caruana, F.. (2823) vs Giri, A.. (2764) | 1/2-1/2 | 2021 |
| Nakamura, Hikaru (2784) vs Kramnik, Vladimir (2803) | 1/2-1/2 | 2013 |
| Mamedyarov, S. (2801) vs Giri, A. (2782) | 1-0 | 2018 |
| Carlsen, Magnus (2863) vs Xiong, Jeffery (2709) | 1-0 | 2020 |
| Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2792) vs Radjabov, T.. (2765) | 0-1 | 2021 |
| Jobava, Ba (2727) vs Caruana, F. (2820) | 0-1 | 2015 |
| Mamedyarov, S. (2767) vs So, W. (2767) | 1-0 | 2019 |
| Mamedyarov, S. (2767) vs So, W. (2767) | 1/2-1/2 | 2019 |
| Nakamura, Hi (2764) vs Karjakin, Sergey (2767) | 0-1 | 2014 |
| Firouzja, Alireza (2759) vs So, W.. (2770) | 0-1 | 2021 |