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Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Tartakower Gambit

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1.d4d52.c4Nc63.Nc3e5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Tartakower Gambit95k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
45%43k55%
27%25k50%
17%16k50%
7.1%6.8k53%
3.7%3.5k49%
0.5%46450%
0.2%18242%
0.2%15126%
0.1%13145%
0.1%8348%
Famous games in this line112 master games
Sargissian, Gabriel (2660) – Finegold, Benjamin (2580)20091–0Dreev, A. (2651) – Finegold, B. (2481)20171–0Shulman, Yuri (2571) – Finegold, Benjamin (2494)2012½–½Gurevich, Mikhail (2590) – Ye, Rongguang (2475)19961–0Kurajica, Bojan (2565) – Miladinovic, Igor (2480)1994½–½Amanov, Mesgen (2486) – Finegold, Benjamin (2530)2010½–½Knaak, Rainer (2525) – Muse, Mladen (2485)19930–1Shariyazdanov, Andrey (2575) – Jurkovic, Hrvoje (2430)20041–0
Heroes of this opening Sargissian, Gabriel · Dreev, A. · Gurevich, Mikhail · Muse, Mladen
Category
Closed
First move
1.d4
ECO
D07
Line
1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 e5
GambitClassical
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The Queen's Gambit appears in the Göttingen manuscript, written around 1500. It anchored world-championship matches for decades — 32 of the 34 games of Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 were Queen's Gambit Declined — and in 2020 a Netflix series watched by 62 million households emptied the world's chess-set shelves. It isn't even a real gambit: Black cannot safely keep the pawn.

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