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Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Heral Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Be75.Bxf6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Heral Variation313k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
99%309k47%
0.8%2.6k43%
0.3%94329%
0.1%18033%
0%9621%
0%9530%
0%5521%
0%3022%
0%2717%
0%2343%
Famous games in this line4 master games
Govedarica, Radovan (2414) – Martinovic, Slobodan (2417)Emelyanov, Mikhail Nikolaevich (2532) – Rumyantsev, Vladimir Aleksandro (2196)Laurent, Claude (2328) – Pessoa, Francisco (2370)Morales, H. (2275) – Kappler, Jean Marie (2300)Heroes of this opening Emelyanov, Mikhail Nikolaevich · Pessoa, Francisco
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D53
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6
Classical
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From the archives
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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