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Queen's Gambit Declined: Vienna Variation, Quiet Variation
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3dxc45.e3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Vienna Variation, Quiet Variation347k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
29%99k40%
18%63k46%
15%52k50%
14%47k49%
6.4%22k39%
4.7%16k42%
3.5%12k40%
2.9%10k46%
1.8%6.3k40%
1.5%5.2k35%
Famous games in this line2.3k master games
Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Caruana, Fabiano (2835)Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Ding, Liren (2791)Kramnik, Vladimir (2797) – Kasparov, Garry (2827)Carlsen, M.. (2847) – So, W.. (2770)Kramnik, Vladimir (2759) – Topalov, Veselin (2796)Eljanov, P. (2741) – Caruana, F. (2813)Anand, Viswanathan (2788) – Morozevich, Alexander (2750)Ponomariov, Ruslan (2739) – Anand, Viswanathan (2788)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, Magnus · Kramnik, Vladimir · So, W..
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D37
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e3
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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