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Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nc3d54.cxd5exd55.Bg5c66.Qc2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation185k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
53%99k43%
17%31k43%
9.7%18k44%
7.3%14k42%
3.6%6.6k40%
3.1%5.7k45%
2.9%5.4k42%
2.6%4.8k45%
0.5%95950%
0.1%22745%
Famous games in this line1.8k master games
Aronian, L. (2777) – Carlsen, M. (2865)Grischuk, A. (2764) – Carlsen, M. (2856)Aronian, L. (2830) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2787)Caruana, F. (2799) – Kramnik, V. (2803)Anand, V. (2797) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2783)Grischuk, A. (2792) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2783)Nepomniachtchi, I. (2751) – Kramnik, V. (2811)Carlsen, M. (2864) – Anton Guijarro, D. (2691)Heroes of this opening Caruana, F. · Grischuk, A. · Nepomniachtchi, I. · Carlsen, M.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D36
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Qc2
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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