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Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nc3d54.Bg5Be75.e3Ne4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense55k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
81%45k56%
12%6.6k56%
5.8%3.2k57%
0.6%31224%
0.2%12454%
0.2%10434%
0.1%6041%
0%1836%
0%1540%
0%1530%
Famous games in this line12 master games
Kortschnoj, Viktor (2650) – Pfleger, Helmut (2520)El Gindy, Essam (2510) – Al Zendani, Zendan (2347)Vokac, Marek (2455) – Dolezal, Radoslav Jr (2396)Jobava, Baadur (2518) – Vasiljevic, Dragan (2330)Prelevic, Dusko (2358) – Sahovic, Dragutin (2387)Miljkovic, Miroslav M (2386) – Vasiljevic, Dragan (2351)Hecht, Hans Joachim (2397) – Anguera Maestro, Jaime (2220)Rodriguez, Jorge Luis (2320) – Medina, Miguel (2265)Heroes of this opening El Gindy, Essam · Vokac, Marek · Jobava, Baadur · Miljkovic, Miroslav M
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D53
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 Ne4
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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