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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Bd3 Line
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Be75.e3O-O6.Nf3Nbd77.Rc1c68.Bd3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Bd3 Line153k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
37%57k46%
25%38k42%
12%18k46%
9.3%14k46%
7.7%12k45%
1.3%2.0k40%
1%1.6k39%
1%1.5k45%
0.9%1.4k38%
0.8%1.2k40%
Famous games in this line1.0k master games
Ivanchuk, Vassily (2730) – Ehlvest, Jaan (2660)Topalov, Veselin (2750) – Yermolinsky, Alex (2610)Karpov, Anatoly (2705) – Andersson, Ulf (2630)Moiseenko, Alexander (2662) – Zvjaginsev, Vadim (2670)Ivanchuk, Vassily (2716) – Asrian, Karen (2605)Speelman, Jonathan S (2625) – Timman, Jan H (2675)Ljubojevic, Ljubomir (2645) – Andersson, Ulf (2640)Karpov, Anatoly (2745) – Campora, Daniel Hugo (2535)Heroes of this opening Ivanchuk, Vassily · Karpov, Anatoly
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D66
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 c6 8. Bd3
Classical
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Capablanca System8…dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nd5 · 2 deeper linesQueen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Alekhine Variation8…dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nd5 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Ne4Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation8…dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nd5 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.O-O …
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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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