Amazon Attack

Amazon Attack is a chess opening with the ECO code D00. It goes 1. d4 d5 2. Qd3. White opens with 1. d4 (the queen's pawn) and Black answers 1... d5. After 3 moves it is Black to move. The lesson on the board explains every move of the line and lets you play it yourself; it is free.

The moves

• 1. d4 – White plays the pawn to d4
• 1... d5 – Black plays the pawn to d5
• 2. Qd3 – White plays the queen to d3

Related openings

• It extends: Queen's Pawn Game (1. d4 d5)
• Related line: Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack (1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Qd3)

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