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Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Chigorin
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1.d4d52.c4Bf53.Nc3e64.Nf3Nc6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Chigorin165k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
23%37k53%
19%32k39%
18%30k53%
16%26k52%
12%19k55%
4%6.6k45%
3.6%6.0k47%
1.3%2.1k40%
1.3%2.1k52%
0.7%1.2k25%
Famous games in this line273 master games
Radjabov, T.. (2765) – Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2784)Giri, Anish (2764) – Nepomniachtchi, Ian (2784)Giri, Anish (2764) – Nepomniachtchi, Ian (2784)Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2770) – Nepomniachtchi, Ian (2774)Aronian, L. (2795) – Li Chao2 (2746)Kramnik, V. (2753) – Nepomniachtchi, I. (2774)Kramnik, Vladimir (2730) – Short, Nigel D (2645)Melkumyan, H. (2633) – Li Chao2 (2720)Heroes of this opening Nepomniachtchi, I.. · Kramnik, Vladimir · Li Chao2
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. Nc3 e6 4. Nf3 Nc6
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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