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Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense
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1.d4d52.c4c5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense2.2M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
27%601k57%
24%531k53%
20%441k53%
16%352k54%
11%243k54%
0.6%14k50%
0.4%9.3k51%
0.3%6.6k52%
0.1%1.8k50%
0.1%1.6k52%
Famous games in this line385 master games
Carlsen, M. (2882) – Mamedyarov, S. (2764)Carlsen, M. (2830) – Nakamura, Hi (2788)So, W. (2778) – Mamedyarov, S. (2808)Caruana, F. (2783) – Nakamura, Hi (2802)Ding Liren (2799) – Mamedyarov, S. (2767)Dubov, Daniil (2710) – Carlsen, M.. (2847)Ding Liren (2762) – Nakamura, Hi (2794)Ding Liren (2766) – Mamedyarov, S. (2747)Heroes of this opening So, W. · Carlsen, M.. · Nakamura, Hi
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5
Classical
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Go deeper — named lines from here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Attack, Salvio Countergambit3.dxc5 d4Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Gusev Countergambit3.cxd5 Nf6 · 1 deeper lineQueen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Haberditz Variation3.cxd5 Nf6 4.e4 Nxe4 5.dxc5 Qa5Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, with e33.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nc6 …
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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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