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Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Bernstein Variation, Mar del Plata Gambit
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Be75.e3O-O6.Nf3h67.Bh4Ne48.Bxe7Qxe79.cxd5Nxc310.bxc3exd511.Qb3Rd812.c4Be6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Bernstein Variation, Mar del Plata Gambit83 games · White to move
Only 83 games reach this position at this level — read it loosely.
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
63%5257%
15%1233%
8.4%743%
4.8%475%
3.6%383%
2.4%250%
2.4%250%
1.2%10%
Famous games in this line24 master games
Topalov, Veselin (2803) – Anand, Viswanathan (2800)Vachier Lagrave, Maxime (2788) – Caruana, F. (2795)Sasikiran, Krishnan (2652) – Korneev, Oleg (2594)Nikolic, Predrag (2674) – Jojua, Davit (2463)Malakhatko, Vadim (2610) – Jojua, Davit (2484)Malakhatko, Vadim (2596) – Senff, Martin (2474)Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan (2606) – Thejkumar, MS. (2458)Malakhatko, Vadim (2612) – Glud, Jakob Vang (2441)Heroes of this opening Anand, Viswanathan · Caruana, F. · Thejkumar, MS. · Malakhatko, Vadim
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D57
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 h6 7. Bh4 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. cxd5 Nxc3 10. bxc3 exd5 11. Qb3 Rd8 12. c4 Be6
GambitClassical
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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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