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Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Carlsen Variation
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nc3d54.cxd5exd55.Bg5Be76.e3h67.Bh4Bg4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Carlsen Variation1.5k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
32%47954%
30%45359%
15%23260%
13%19356%
7.3%11051%
0.7%1159%
0.7%1050%
0.3%40%
0.2%333%
0.1%250%
Famous games in this line234 master games
Maghsoodloo, Parham (2719) – Carlsen, M. (2859)Abdusattorov, Nodirbek (2771) – Caruana, F. (2784)Caruana, F. (2789) – Vachier Lagrave, M. (2738)Caruana, F. (2789) – Vachier Lagrave, M. (2738)Praggnanandhaa, R. (2785) – Vachier Lagrave, M. (2738)Aronian, L. (2737) – So, W. (2745)Abdusattorov, Nodirbek (2777) – Nihal, Sarin (2676)Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. (2706) – Tabatabaei, M. (2686)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, M. · Caruana, F.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D35
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 Bg4
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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