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Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nc3d54.cxd5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation4.5M games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
73%3.2M46%
25%1.1M44%
0.9%38k38%
0.6%25k39%
0.2%9.0k42%
0.2%8.8k49%
0.1%3.7k24%
0.1%2.4k38%
0%1.5k37%
0%1.0k40%
Famous games in this line18k master games
Carlsen, M. (2855) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2812)Carlsen, M. (2851) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2801)Carlsen, M. (2851) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2801)Carlsen, M. (2832) – So, W. (2815)Carlsen, M. (2882) – Dominguez Perez, L. (2763)Aronian, L. (2777) – Carlsen, M. (2865)Carlsen, M.. (2847) – Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2789)Carlsen, M.. (2847) – Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2789)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, M. · 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
Classical
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Go deeper — named lines from here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation4…exd5 5.Bg5 · 3 deeper linesQueen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation4…exd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.Qc2Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Carlsen Variation4…exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 …Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Chameleon Variation4…exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 O-O 7.Bd3 …
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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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