Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Russian Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Be75.e3O-O6.Nf3h67.Bh4Ne48.Bxe7Qxe79.Qc2Nf610.Bd3dxc411.Bxc4c512.O-ONc613.Rfd1Bd7
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Russian Variation1 games · White to move
Only 1 games reach this position at this level — read it loosely.
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
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- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D56
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 h6 7. Bh4 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Qc2 Nf6 10. Bd3 dxc4 11. Bxc4 c5 12. O-O Nc6 13. Rfd1 Bd7
Classical
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Nearby lines in the family
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical, Flohr Variation2…dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 …Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation6…Nbd7 7.Rc1 c6 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 …Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Bernstein Variation, Mar del Plata Gambit9.cxd5 Nxc3 10.bxc3 exd5 11.Qb3 Rd8 …
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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