ACCEPT

To take – an offered pawn – Like in the Queen’s Gambit, Accepted 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4. Antonym: declined.

I thank the Lord for not pairing me with Black against Magnus Carlsen in the first round. Nigel Short
2017
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Savielly Tartakower
‘We may all be equal in the eyes of the Lord, but in my eyes you are certainly not equal to me.’ Robert Fischer
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game. Lajos Portisch

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