D06 · Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense
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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1.d4d52.c4Nf6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
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- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6
Classical
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