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Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Lazard Gambit
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1.d4d52.c4Nc63.Nf3e5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Lazard Gambit98k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
45%44k53%
30%30k56%
9%8.8k55%
7.5%7.3k52%
5.6%5.5k57%
0.9%92348%
0.8%79750%
0.2%23941%
0.2%21944%
0.1%11539%
Famous games in this line205 master games
Grandelius, N. (2643) – Tikkanen, H. (2535)Bokar, Dr. Jason (2550) – Spitz, Patrick (2555)Gustafsson, Jan (2579) – Sagalchik, Gennadij (2487)Joppich, Ulrich (2453) – Gil, Maria do Carmo de V (2607)Roussel Roozmon, Thomas (2442) – Miladinovic, Igor (2604)Vorobiov, Evgeny E (2478) – Turov, Maxim (2546)Hebden, Mark (2542) – Williams, Simon Kim (2475)Cramling, Pia (2545) – Bauer, Christian (2465)Heroes of this opening Sagalchik, Gennadij · Roussel Roozmon, Thomas · Vorobiov, Evgeny E · Hebden, Mark
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D07
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nf3 e5
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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