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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Be75.Bg5O-O6.e3Nbd77.Rc1
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line125k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
19%24k46%
14%18k45%
13%16k45%
4.5%5.6k47%
3.3%4.1k45%
1.1%1.4k40%
0.3%33740%
0.1%17236%
Famous games in this line2.1k master games
Aronian, Levon (2813) – Carlsen, Magnus (2868)Radjabov, T.. (2765) – Karjakin, Sergey (2752)Le Quang Liem (2709) – Aronian, L.. (2781)Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. (2729) – Le, Quang Liem (2739)Topalov, Veselin (2788) – Nielsen, Peter Heine (2668)Ivanchuk, Vassily (2730) – Ehlvest, Jaan (2660)Erdos, V. (2624) – Karjakin, Sergey (2765)Wang Yue (2724) – Zvjaginsev, V. (2660)Heroes of this opening Radjabov, T.. · Aronian, L.. · Ivanchuk, Vassily · Wang Yue
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D63
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Rc1
Classical
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Henneberger Variation7…a6 · 1 deeper lineQueen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Swiss, Carlsbad Variation7…a6 8.cxd5
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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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