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Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack
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1.d4d52.c4Bf53.Qb3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack110k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
28%31k34%
26%28k42%
11%12k39%
9.9%11k43%
8.8%9.7k41%
4.8%5.3k45%
3.3%3.6k57%
2.6%2.9k35%
2.1%2.3k43%
1.7%1.8k43%
Famous games in this line59 master games
Novikov, Igor A (2580) – Lalic, Bogdan (2515)Sokolov, Andrei (2605) – Rausis, Igors (2490)Novikov, Igor A (2585) – Westerinen, Heikki MJ (2430)Miles, Anthony J (2610) – Gobet, Fernand (2360)Goldin, Alexander (2525) – Klaric, Zlatko (2445)Bu, Xiangzhi (2630) – Eid, Fadi (2332)Lukacs, Peter (2450) – Vadasz, Laszlo (2495)Hracek, Zbynek (2455) – Bagirov, Vladimir (2485)Heroes of this opening Novikov, Igor A · Miles, Anthony J · Lukacs, Peter
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. 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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