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Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense, Vienna Variation
10/10
1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Bb45.Bg5dxc4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense, Vienna Variation115k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
46%52k56%
38%44k56%
4.8%5.6k54%
3.7%4.2k55%
2.7%3.2k52%
1.9%2.2k56%
1%1.1k56%
1%1.1k55%
0.7%77756%
0.2%18653%
Famous games in this line1.3k master games
Ding Liren (2805) – Carlsen, M. (2882)Ding Liren (2805) – Carlsen, M. (2861)Carlsen, M. (2847) – Aronian, L. (2782)Carlsen, M. (2875) – Aronian, L. (2752)Radjabov, T.. (2765) – Carlsen, M.. (2847)So, W. (2812) – Aronian, L. (2793)Carlsen, Magnus (2801) – Anand, Viswanathan (2788)Gelfand, B. (2777) – Aronian, L. (2812)- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D39
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 dxc4
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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