D50 · Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Been-Koomen Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5c5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Been-Koomen Variation259k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
37%97k53%
11%29k46%
4.3%11k46%
2.6%6.6k46%
0.2%55738%
0.2%41349%
0.1%20643%
0.1%18145%
Famous games in this line158 master games
Artemiev, V. (2691) – Le Quang Liem (2737)Grandelius, N. (2642) – Naiditsch, A. (2684)Del Rio de Angelis, Salvador Gabriel (2531) – Gustafsson, Jan (2643)Demidov, Mikhail (2519) – Rakhmanov, Alexander (2645)Savchenko, B. (2633) – Bezgodov, A. (2493)Timman, Jan H (2590) – Sosonko, Gennadi (2530)Kortschnoj, Viktor (2625) – Hector, Jonny (2465)Kunin, Vitaly L (2507) – Solodovnichenko, Yuri (2565)Heroes of this opening Artemiev, V. · Bezgodov, A. · Kortschnoj, Viktor
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D50
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c5
Classical
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch VariationD50 5.cxd5 · 1 deeper lineQueen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation, Canal VariationD50 5.cxd5 Qb6Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation, Primitive Pillsbury VariationD50 5.Nf3 cxd4 6.Qxd4Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Krause VariationD50 5.Nf3 cxd4 6.Nxd4 e5 7.Ndb5 a6 …
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From the archives
The Queen's Gambit appears in the earliest opening manuscripts (c. 1490, Göttingen). It anchored world-championship matches for a century — Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 was practically a Queen's Gambit theme event — and in 2020 a TV show made a 500-year-old pawn offer the most famous opening on the planet. It isn't even a real gambit: Black can't safely keep the pawn.
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