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Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Bb4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense3.9M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
40%1.5M57%
15%582k56%
8.6%331k53%
7.4%283k54%
6.6%253k58%
6.4%247k57%
4.2%162k56%
3%114k58%
2.7%103k58%
Famous games in this line18k master games
Aronian, L. (2815) – Carlsen, M. (2881)Carlsen, M. (2881) – Aronian, L. (2815)Carlsen, M. (2881) – Aronian, L. (2815)Ding Liren (2805) – Carlsen, M. (2882)Ding Liren (2805) – Carlsen, M. (2861)Mamedyarov, S. (2820) – Carlsen, M. (2839)Carlsen, M. (2862) – Aronian, L. (2797)Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Ding, Liren (2791)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, M. · Ding Liren
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D38
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4
Classical
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Go deeper — named lines from here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense, Alekhine Variation5.Qa4Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense, Vienna Variation5.Bg5 dxc4Queen's Gambit Declined: Westphalian Variation5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 c5
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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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