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Queen's Pawn Game

Moves

White scores

52.7%

Wins more
Loses moreEvenWins more

50.6% won4.1% drawn45.3% lost

Theory 52.7% · Stockfish +0.3

Every level and clock · 284M games

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Win rate by rating

White’s score gets better as the rating rises.

RatingScore against evenScoreWonGames
50.8%48.7%17M
52.8%51.0%27M
52.8%51.0%40M
52.5%50.6%52M
52.6%50.6%55M
52.7%50.4%48M
53.1%50.6%28M
53.7%50.9%14M
54.7%50.6%2.7M

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What does Black play next?

Black's most played reply is 1…⁠e6, the Horwitz Defense.

Is the Queen's Pawn Game good?

Yes, for White, across every level and clock.

Everyone52.7
Stockfish52.7

Stockfish at depth 22 · +0.3 for White

Floor 52.7 is the worst score you would still get, 90% confident.

Among the families

20th of 66 families White can choose

Where it wins · rating × clock

<100010001200140016001800200022002500+Every levelUltraBulletBulletBlitzRapidClassical
Best 58.9% · 2200–2499 classicalWorst 45.6% · under 1000 ultrabullet

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More Queen's Pawn Game lines

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All 48 Queen's Pawn Game lines, ranked

48 variations · ranked by floor

Floor — the worst score you would still get, 90% confident.

1
Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System, Traditional Colle861K games
56.8%Floor 56.7%
2
Queen's Pawn Game: Levitsky Attack6.0M games
54.8%Floor 54.8%
3
Queen's Pawn Game: Chandler Gambit43K games
54.8%Floor 54.4%
Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation, Pseudo-Catalan2.7M games
54.1%Floor 54.1%
Queen's Pawn Game: Stonewall Attack2.6M games
54.0%Floor 54.0%
Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System50M games
53.7%Floor 53.7%
Queen's Pawn Game: London System, with e69.3M games
53.4%Floor 53.4%
Queen's Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation20M games
53.3%Floor 53.3%
Queen's Pawn Game: London System12M games
53.3%Floor 53.3%
Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System13M games
53.0%Floor 53.0%
Queen's Pawn Game: Anti-Torre3.4M games
53.0%Floor 52.9%
Queen's Pawn Game: Torre Attack, Grünfeld Variation, Main Line59K games
53.2%Floor 52.9%
Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation27M games
52.9%Floor 52.9%
Queen's Pawn Game: Mason Attack2.8M games
53.0%Floor 52.9%
Queen's Pawn Game: Torre Attack2.4M games
52.7%Floor 52.7%
Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Shropshire Defense15K games
53.1%Floor 52.4%
Queen's Pawn Game81M games
52.1%Floor 52.1%
Queen's Pawn Game: Zilbermints Countergambit576 games
55.5%Floor 52.1%
Queen's Pawn Game: Veresov Attack, Dutch System150K games
52.2%Floor 52.0%
Queen's Pawn Game: Barry Attack, Tarzan Attack103K games
52.2%Floor 51.9%
Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation5.7M games
51.9%Floor 51.9%
Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Shaviliuk Gambit363K games
51.9%Floor 51.8%
Queen's Pawn Game: Krause Variation3.6M games
51.8%Floor 51.8%
Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System, Anti-Colle2.0M games
51.8%Floor 51.7%
Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Anti-Veresov210K games
51.8%Floor 51.6%
Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, Steinitz Countergambit3.3M games
51.6%Floor 51.6%
Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Alburt Defense1.9M games
51.5%Floor 51.5%
Queen's Pawn Game: Levitsky Attack, Welling Variation73K games
51.8%Floor 51.5%
Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, Steinitz Countergambit, Morris Countergambit Accepted16K games
52.0%Floor 51.4%
Queen's Pawn Game: Modern Defense27M games
51.1%Floor 51.1%
Queen's Pawn Game: Torre Attack, Grünfeld Variation142K games
51.3%Floor 51.1%
Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Fianchetto Defense126K games
51.3%Floor 51.0%
Queen's Pawn Game: Barry Attack277K games
51.1%Floor 50.9%
Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, Steinitz Countergambit, Morris Countergambit12K games
51.4%Floor 50.6%
Queen's Pawn Game: Torre Attack, Gossip Variation354K games
50.7%Floor 50.5%
Queen's Pawn Game: Liedmann Gambit331K games
50.6%Floor 50.4%
Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Irish Gambit899K games
50.5%Floor 50.4%
Queen's Pawn Game: Veresov Attack, Classical Defense1.3M games
50.5%Floor 50.4%
Queen's Pawn Game: London System, Pterodactyl Variation1.4K games
52.4%Floor 50.2%
Queen's Pawn Game: Barry Attack, Grünfeld Variation51K games
50.5%Floor 50.2%
Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System, Grünfeld Formation453K games
50.2%Floor 50.1%
Queen's Pawn Game: Anglo-Slav Opening1.7M games
50.0%Floor 50.0%
Queen's Pawn Game: Veresov, Richter Attack521K games
50.0%Floor 49.9%
Queen's Pawn Game: Levitsky Attack, Euwe Variation, Modern Line15K games
50.3%Floor 49.6%
Queen's Pawn Game: Torre Attack, Breyer Variation7.7K games
50.4%Floor 49.4%
Queen's Pawn Game: Hübsch Gambit324K games
49.2%Floor 49.1%
Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, Steinitz Countergambit Accepted248K games
47.5%Floor 47.4%
Queen's Pawn Game: Zurich Gambit53K games
38.8%Floor 38.4%
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Methodology

Across every level and clock, the Queen's Pawn Game family scores 52.7% for White, from 284M rated Lichess games across 48 variations, and the low and high ends of its range both round to that same figure at this precision. Win rate, draw rate and loss rate come from games played September 2023 to August 2026.

How the figures are made
Whose games these are
284M rated games played on Lichess (2023-09 to 2026-08). The games are Lichess’s and free for anyone to use. What is ours is the reading of them. Last rebuilt September 2026.
Which games we count
  • Rated games only — nothing casual.
  • Both players within 200 rating points of each other. A mismatch tells you about the gap, not about the opening.
  • At least 2 moves played.
  • A game is filed under White’s rating.
Why every number comes with a range
A number off a few hundred games is a guess. The same number off millions is a fact. The range is what tells them apart, and it is what the lists rank on — so an opening cannot reach the top on a lucky run of forty games. The more games behind a figure, the narrower its range.
What the Floor and Edge at worst are
The Floor is the worst score you would still get, 90% confident: the low end of a figure’s range, not its average. Edge at worst is how far wins run ahead of losses, 90% confident, so above zero, that side wins more than it loses even on a bad day. Each is stated for the rating and clock shown, over the games that reached the position. They are on different scales: a score sits at 50 when the sides are level, an edge at zero.
How much we need before we say anything
An opening page needs 100 games. A figure on it needs 100 games at its rating and clock: short of that the answer reads a wider scope and says so, a table row shows only its count, and a map cell shows a dash. Under 1.0K games a figure is drawn faint, and never leads a list or counts as the best or worst place the line wins. The chaos and trap lists need 500 games overall and 250 games at one rating or clock.