Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Main Line
19/19
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Be74.Nf3Nf65.Bg5h66.Bh4O-O7.e3Ne48.Bxe7Qxe79.cxd5Nxc310.bxc3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Main Line22k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
100%22k46%
0.1%3250%
0%1136%
0%617%
0%520%
0%30%
0%367%
0%333%
0%20%
0%20%
Famous games in this line255 master games
Topalov, Veselin (2803) – Anand, Viswanathan (2800)Nakamura, Hi (2779) – Caruana, F. (2823)Topalov, Veselin (2775) – Anand, Viswanathan (2817)Vachier Lagrave, Maxime (2788) – Caruana, F. (2795)Aronian, Levon (2786) – Anand, Viswanathan (2788)Grischuk, A. (2810) – Radjabov, T. (2734)Svidler, P. (2734) – Caruana, F. (2803)Nakamura, Hi (2764) – Jakovenko, D. (2747)Heroes of this opening Anand, Viswanathan · Nakamura, Hi · Caruana, F. · Radjabov, T.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D57
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. cxd5 Nxc3 10. bxc3
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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