Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Alekhine Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Nbd75.Nf3c66.e4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Alekhine Variation72k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
66%48k54%
12%8.7k49%
11%7.8k44%
4.9%3.5k47%
2.6%1.9k40%
1.6%1.2k40%
0.9%63556%
0.2%12135%
0.1%9016%
0.1%7341%
Famous games in this line10 master games
Edouard, R. (2617) – Gunina, V. (2496)Stocek, Jiri (2578) – Timoscenko, Gennadij (2481)Stocek, Jiri (2450) – Lukacs, Peter (2470)Hausner, Ivan (2440) – Gerstner, Wolfgang (2340)Zisman, P. (2238) – Firat, B. (2486)Hurme, Harri M (2277) – Pushkov, Nikolai (2406)Saharinen, Petri (2318) – Semmelroth, Heinz-Dieter (2319)Reiss, Tibor (2269) – Pataki, Gyozo (2344)Heroes of this opening Stocek, Jiri · Edouard, R. · Hausner, Ivan · Semmelroth, Heinz-Dieter
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D51
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. Nf3 c6 6. e4
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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