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Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense, Tan Gambit
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1.d4d52.c4Nf63.cxd5c6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense, Tan Gambit131k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
72%95k54%
21%27k53%
3.6%4.7k53%
0.8%1.0k53%
0.8%1.0k55%
0.7%87152%
0.5%61449%
0.3%39650%
0.2%21152%
0.1%12949%
Famous games in this line45 master games
Vorobiov, Evgeny E (2577) – Zvjaginsev, Vadim (2646)Drozdovskij, Yuri (2509) – Dobrov, Vladimir (2515)Sandipan, Chanda (2637) – Elorta, David (2363)Borrmann, Laurenz (2423) – Pechac, Jergus (2510)Vinchev, Simeon (2466) – Blank, Wolfgang (2463)Osipov, Sergey Adolfovich (2436) – Baranowski, Tadeusz (2483)Aleksandrov, Valery Konstantinov (2409) – Kilichenko, Aleksandr Vladimiro (2397)Anderson, Clarence (2372) – Bussom, Andrew (2400)Heroes of this opening Dobrov, Vladimir · Sandipan, Chanda · Pechac, Jergus
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. cxd5 c6
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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