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Queen's Gambit Declined: Semmering Variation
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1.d4d52.c4c63.Nf3Nf64.e3e65.Nbd2Nbd76.Bd3c5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semmering Variation298 games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
44%13260%
27%8167%
14%4269%
6.4%1974%
2.7%813%
2%667%
1.7%540%
0.7%2100%
0.3%1100%
0.3%1100%
Famous games in this line108 master games
Jakovenko, Dmitrij (2662) – Shabalov, Alexander (2595)Onischuk, Alexander (2647) – Shabalov, Alexander (2592)Ehlvest, Jaan (2602) – Shabalov, Alexander (2597)Khenkin, Igor (2620) – Shabalov, Alexander (2575)Kacheishvili, Giorgi (2597) – Shabalov, Alexander (2593)Ibragimov, Ildar (2556) – Shabalov, Alexander (2624)Malakhatko, Vadim (2524) – Akopian, Vladimir (2654)Rivas Pastor, Manuel (2515) – Akopian, Vladimir (2655)Heroes of this opening Shabalov, Alexander · Akopian, Vladimir
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D30
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 c5
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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