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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Attack
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nc3d54.Nf3Be75.Bg5O-O6.e3Nbd77.Rc1c68.a3a69.Qc2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Attack4.4k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
31%1.4k42%
23%1.0k46%
18%78145%
16%70846%
3.1%13751%
1.5%6537%
1.1%4732%
0.9%4134%
0.9%3938%
0.8%3736%
Famous games in this line37 master games
Sasikiran, Krishnan (2670) – Kaidanov, Gregory S (2646)Babula, Vlastimil (2554) – Hracek, Zbynek (2620)Sasikiran, Krishnan (2654) – Himanshu, Sharma (2380)Jussupow, Artur (2555) – Van der Sterren, Paul (2465)Lehner, Oliver (2437) – Bischoff, Klaus (2558)Dao, Thien Hai (2559) – Ly, Hong Nguyen (2330)Andersson, Ulf (2575) – Arlandi, Ennio (2310)Sundararajan, Kidambi (2446) – Soppe, Guillermo (2435)Heroes of this opening Sasikiran, Krishnan · Jussupow, Artur · Dao, Thien Hai · Andersson, Ulf
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D64
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 c6 8. a3 a6 9. Qc2
AggressiveClassical
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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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