Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Fianchetto Variation
18/18
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5c65.Nf3Be76.e3Nbd77.Rc1O-O8.Bd3dxc49.Bxc4b5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Fianchetto Variation31k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
81%26k53%
14%4.4k49%
5%1.6k52%
0%729%
0%540%
0%150%
0%10%
0%10%
0%10%
0%10%
Famous games in this line66 master games
Jussupow, Artur (2583) – Goloshchapov, Alexander (2563)Krasenkow, Michal (2609) – Jakubowski, Krzysztof (2483)Brunello, S. (2519) – Svane, Frederik (2568)Cramling, P. (2507) – Gunina, V. (2508)Atalik, S. (2494) – Zakhartsov, Vl (2514)Dzagnidze, N. (2520) – Atalik, E. (2468)Balogh, Imre (2415) – Georgiev, Vladimir (2572)Suetin, Alexey S (2550) – Polgar, Istvan (2370)Heroes of this opening Krasenkow, Michal · Gunina, V. · Georgiev, Vladimir · Suetin, Alexey S
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D66
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c6 5. Nf3 Be7 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 O-O 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 b5
FianchettoClassical
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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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