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Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense
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1.d4d52.c4Nc6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense3.1M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
21%651k55%
20%623k55%
13%390k54%
1.6%50k50%
1.2%38k54%
0.6%19k54%
0.2%6.5k49%
0.2%4.7k54%
0.1%4.1k48%
Famous games in this line3.8k master games
Kramnik, Vladimir (2791) – Carlsen, Magnus (2802)Carlsen, Magnus (2801) – Ivanchuk, Vassily (2739)Anand, Viswanathan (2790) – Morozevich, Alexander (2745)Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2760) – Morozevich, Alexander (2765)Aronian, L. (2795) – Rapport, R. (2730)Kramnik, Vladimir (2758) – Morozevich, Alexander (2748)Kasparov, Garry (2805) – Ivanchuk, Vassily (2700)Yu Yangyi (2752) – Rapport, R. (2747)Heroes of this opening Rapport, R. · Ivanchuk, Vassily · Kasparov, Garry
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D07
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6
Classical
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Go deeper — named lines from here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Main Line3.Nf3 Bg4 · 1 deeper lineQueen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Lazard Gambit3.Nf3 e5Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Tartakower Gambit3.Nc3 e5Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Exchange Variation3.cxd5 Qxd5 · 1 deeper line
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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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