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Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation8.6M games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
12%1.0M44%
7.7%662k47%
3.2%272k46%
3%262k42%
0.5%46k41%
0.5%42k47%
0.2%22k45%
Famous games in this line7.9k master games
So, W. (2812) – Kramnik, V. (2808)Mamedyarov, S. (2808) – Kramnik, V. (2792)So, W. (2752) – Carlsen, M. (2830)So, W. (2770) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2812)Gelfand, Boris (2755) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2803)Abdusattorov, Nodirbek (2727) – Carlsen, M. (2830)Topalov, V. (2741) – Kramnik, V. (2811)Kasparov, G. (2812) – Dominguez Perez, L. (2739)- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D50
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5
Classical
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Go deeper — named lines from here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Been-Koomen Variation4…c5 · 4 deeper linesQueen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense4…Nbd7 · 6 deeper linesQueen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation4…c5 5.cxd5 · 1 deeper lineQueen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Heral Variation4…Be7 5.Bxf6
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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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