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Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack Deferred
7/7
1.d4d52.c4Bf53.Nc3e64.Qb3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack Deferred100k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
43%42k34%
26%26k56%
13%13k40%
6%6.0k50%
4.6%4.6k38%
3.7%3.7k43%
2.6%2.6k40%
0.3%29243%
0.3%28539%
0.3%28144%
Famous games in this line12 master games
Lesiege, Alexandre (2480) – Berelowitsch, Alexander (2455)Ivanov, Igor V (2472) – Mezentsev, Vladimir (2376)Tomazini, A. (2387) – Kutynec, V. (2293)Poluektov, Yuri (2282) – Bondarchuk, Sergei (2334)Starck, Bodo (2257) – Heil, Siegfried (2355)Starck, Bodo (2257) – Heil, Siegfried (2347)Gaertner, Guntram (2315) – Posch, Werner (2270)Kreienbuehl, Andreas (2218) – Nemet, Ivan (2341)Heroes of this opening Lesiege, Alexandre · Mezentsev, Vladimir · Kutynec, V. · Gaertner, Guntram
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. Nc3 e6 4. Qb3
AggressiveClassical
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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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