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Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense
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1.d4d52.c4Nf6
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense19.6M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
53%10.5M55%
22%4.3M60%
11%2.2M55%
7.9%1.5M53%
2.1%417k52%
1.3%253k49%
1.2%231k54%
0.9%171k55%
0.2%40k53%
0.1%18k52%
Famous games in this line357 master games
Karpov, Anatoly (2616) – Ivanchuk, Vassily (2771)Grischuk, A. (2745) – Ponkratov, P. (2634)Dubov, Daniil (2702) – Ponkratov, P. (2624)Shirov, Alexei (2610) – Bareev, Evgeny (2680)Cori, Jorge Moise (2652) – Ponkratov, Pavel (2630)Huebner, Robert (2640) – Sadler, Matthew (2624)Khenkin, Igor (2655) – Swiercz, Dariusz (2609)Van Foreest, Jorden (2632) – Van Wely, L. (2610)- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6
Classical
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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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