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Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense
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1.d4d52.c4Bf5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense3.9M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
62%2.4M55%
14%530k59%
9.7%373k54%
7.5%290k53%
1.8%68k53%
0.6%24k56%
0.6%21k52%
0.2%9.6k51%
0.2%6.7k54%
Famous games in this line1.1k master games
Nogueiras Santiago, Jesus (2580) – Shirov, Alexei (2685)Nabaty, T. (2658) – Alterman, B. (2603)Vitiugov, Nikita (2734) – Bezgodov, Alexei (2482)Dreev, Alexey (2570) – Malaniuk, Vladimir P (2635)Portisch, Lajos (2585) – Malaniuk, Vladimir P (2615)David, Alberto (2631) – Miladinovic, Igor (2559)Riazantsev, Alexander (2708) – Bezgodov, Alexei (2482)Lautier, Joel (2560) – Shirov, Alexei (2610)Heroes of this opening Nabaty, T. · Vitiugov, Nikita · Shirov, Alexei
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5
Classical
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Go deeper — named lines from here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack3.Qb3Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack Deferred3.Nc3 e6 4.Qb3Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Chigorin3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 Nc6Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Argentinian Gambit3.cxd5 Bxb1 4.Qa4 c6 5.dxc6 Nxc6
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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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