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Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nc3d54.cxd5exd55.Bg5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation3.0M games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
49%1.5M45%
8.5%258k43%
6.4%194k47%
4%122k44%
1.5%45k41%
1%31k47%
0.8%24k40%
0.8%23k46%
0.7%22k43%
Famous games in this line17k master games
Carlsen, M. (2851) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2801)Aronian, L. (2777) – Carlsen, M. (2865)Carlsen, M.. (2847) – Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2789)Carlsen, M.. (2847) – Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2789)Grischuk, A. (2764) – Carlsen, M. (2856)Erigaisi, Arjun (2782) – Carlsen, M. (2837)Aronian, L. (2830) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2787)Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2753)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, Magnus · Nepomniachtchi, I..
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D35
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5
Classical
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation5…c6 6.Qc2Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Carlsen Variation5…Be7 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 Bg4Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Chameleon Variation5…Be7 6.e3 O-O 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.Qc2 …
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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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