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Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Main Line, Alekhine Variation
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1.d4d52.c4Nc63.Nf3Bg44.Qa4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Main Line, Alekhine Variation1.7k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
68%1.2k44%
9.8%17145%
9%15633%
7.3%12644%
3.2%5544%
1.3%2227%
0.5%813%
0.4%729%
0.3%642%
0.2%333%
Famous games in this line71 master games
Portisch, Lajos (2630) – Smyslov, Vassily (2620)Georgiev, Kiril (2660) – Morozevich, Alexander (2545)Malaniuk, Vladimir P (2595) – Morozevich, Alexander (2590)Novikov, Igor A (2591) – Skembris, Spyridon (2481)Jobava, Baadur (2615) – Muse, Mladen (2448)Novikov, Igor A (2540) – Finegold, Benjamin (2490)Novikov, Igor A (2580) – Danailov, Silvio (2445)Novikov, Igor A (2580) – Muse, Mladen (2445)Heroes of this opening Novikov, Igor A · Georgiev, Kiril · Morozevich, Alexander · Jobava, Baadur
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D07
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. Qa4
Classical
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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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