Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Alekhine Variation
21/21
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Be75.e3O-O6.Nf3Nbd77.Rc1c68.Bd3dxc49.Bxc4Nd510.Bxe7Qxe711.Ne4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Alekhine Variation500 games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
31%15539%
13%6545%
13%6425%
12%6154%
7.6%3858%
6.8%3444%
5.8%2936%
4.8%2444%
2%1030%
1.8%978%
Famous games in this line212 master games
Ivanchuk, Vassily (2730) – Ehlvest, Jaan (2660)Topalov, Veselin (2750) – Yermolinsky, Alex (2610)Ivanchuk, Vassily (2716) – Asrian, Karen (2605)Kortschnoj, Viktor (2650) – Huebner, Robert (2620)Dorfman, Josif D (2617) – Bacrot, Etienne (2653)Portisch, Lajos (2635) – Ljubojevic, Ljubomir (2615)Ivanisevic, Ivan (2607) – Gurevich, Mikhail (2627)Hertneck, Gerald (2605) – Huebner, Robert (2605)Heroes of this opening Ivanchuk, Vassily · Kortschnoj, Viktor · Huebner, Robert
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D67
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 c6 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 Nd5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. Ne4
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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