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Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek Variation, Miladinovic Gambit
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Be74.e4dxe45.f3
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek Variation, Miladinovic Gambit805 games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
59%47245%
25%20443%
6.6%5352%
3.9%3152%
2.5%2028%
0.7%650%
0.5%450%
0.4%367%
0.2%20%
0.2%2100%
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D31
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. e4 dxe4 5. f3
GambitClassical
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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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