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Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Teichmann Variation

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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Be75.Bg5h66.Bh4O-O7.e3Ne48.Bxe7Qxe79.Qc2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Teichmann Variation7.9k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
72%5.7k47%
15%1.2k39%
5%39745%
2.1%16840%
1%8340%
0.8%6440%
0.7%5845%
0.6%4738%
0.5%4146%
0.5%4128%
Famous games in this line351 master games
Tomashevsky, E. (2701) – Nakamura, Hi (2764)2014½–½Aronian, Levon (2737) – Jakovenko, Dmitrij (2709)2008½–½Bu Xiangzhi (2714) – Bacrot, E. (2728)2017½–½Bacrot, Etienne (2664) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2777)2003½–½Alekseev, Evgeny (2716) – Jakovenko, Dmitrij (2710)2007½–½Shirov, Alexei (2740) – Volokitin, Andrei (2684)2008½–½Karpov, Anatoly (2755) – Jussupow, Artur (2610)1989½–½Istratescu, Andrei (2645) – Bacrot, Etienne (2710)2011½–½
Family
Queen's Gambit
Category
Indian
First move
1.d4
ECO
D56
Line
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Qc2
Classical
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From the archives

The Queen's Gambit appears in the earliest opening manuscripts (c. 1490, Göttingen). It anchored world-championship matches for a century — Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 was practically a Queen's Gambit theme event — and in 2020 a TV show made a 500-year-old pawn offer the most famous opening on the planet. It isn't even a real gambit: Black can't safely keep the pawn.

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