D68 · Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation
24/24
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Be75.e3O-O6.Nf3Nbd77.Rc1c68.Bd3dxc49.Bxc4Nd510.Bxe7Qxe711.O-ONxc312.Rxc3e5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation8.0k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
55%4.4k48%
13%1.1k57%
7.9%63558%
5.7%45650%
4%31944%
1.7%13447%
1.7%13246%
1.6%12754%
1%8346%
Famous games in this line324 master games
Speelman, Jonathan S (2625) – Timman, Jan H (2675)Karpov, Anatoly (2745) – Campora, Daniel Hugo (2535)Nikolic, Predrag (2648) – Hulak, Krunoslav (2550)Khenkin, Igor (2600) – Sulskis, Sarunas (2555)Timman, Jan H (2510) – Huebner, Robert (2615)Pinter, Jozsef (2590) – Lukacs, Peter (2515)Timofeev, Arty (2602) – Nozdrachev, V. (2489)Franco Ocampos, Zenon (2520) – Campora, Daniel Hugo (2565)Heroes of this opening Karpov, Anatoly · Khenkin, Igor · Huebner, Robert
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D68
- 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 dxc4 9. Bxc4 Nd5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. O-O Nxc3 12. Rxc3 e5
Classical
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Nearby lines in the family
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Bernstein Variation, Mar del Plata GambitD57 6…h6 7.Bh4 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.cxd5 …Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical, Flohr VariationD28 2…dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 …Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Russian VariationD56 6…h6 7.Bh4 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Qc2 …
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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