Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Rochlin Variation
13/13
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Nbd75.Nf3c66.Rc1Qa57.Bd2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Rochlin Variation399 games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
37%14846%
22%8849%
19%7658%
15%6046%
3%1238%
1.5%650%
1%425%
0.5%250%
0.3%10%
0.3%10%
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D51
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. Nf3 c6 6. Rc1 Qa5 7. Bd2
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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