Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation, Canal Variation
10/10
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5c55.cxd5Qb6
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation, Canal Variation754 games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
51%38742%
15%11437%
11%8436%
10%7846%
4.4%3323%
2.3%1741%
1.6%1258%
1.2%967%
0.9%743%
0.5%425%
Famous games in this line17 master games
Hansen, Curt (2570) – Polgar, Zsuzsa (2500)Campos Moreno, Javier B (2440) – Martin Gonzalez, Angel (2400)Yrjola, Jouni (2500) – Pirttimaki, Timo (2340)Khurtsidze, Nino (2391) – Kalygin, Sergey V (2440)Garcia Martinez, Silvino (2340) – Karaklajic, Nikola (2490)Knaak, R. (2457) – Legky, N. (2350)Kekelidze, Mikheil (2325) – Sokolovs, Andrei (2480)Shalimov, Valery (2445) – Volokitin, Andrei (2295)Heroes of this opening Hansen, Curt · Campos Moreno, Javier B · Knaak, R. · Shalimov, Valery
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D50
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c5 5. cxd5 Qb6
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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