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Queen's Gambit Declined: Miles Variation
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Be75.Bg5O-O6.Qc2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Miles Variation46k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
28%13k47%
16%7.6k48%
14%6.3k46%
13%5.8k50%
8.7%4.0k50%
6.7%3.1k47%
6.2%2.8k46%
4.6%2.1k47%
0.7%31343%
0.6%27846%
Famous games in this line544 master games
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2752) – Alekseev, Evgeny (2716)Kramnik, Vladimir (2760) – Inarkiev, E. (2688)Kasparov, Garry (2740) – Karpov, Anatoly (2700)Ivanchuk, Vassily (2739) – Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (2669)Le Quang Liem (2718) – Fressinet, L. (2687)Kramnik, Vladimir (2730) – Beliavsky, Alexander G (2650)Andreikin, D. (2723) – Kovalenko, I. (2657)Kramnik, Vladimir (2730) – Short, Nigel D (2645)Heroes of this opening Kramnik, Vladimir · Le Quang Liem
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D37
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. Qc2
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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