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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rauzer Variation
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1.d4d52.Nf3Nf63.c4e64.Nc3Be75.Bg5O-O6.e3Nbd77.Qb3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rauzer Variation6.1k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
30%1.8k45%
19%1.1k48%
17%1.0k49%
14%83651%
8.7%53346%
7.6%46553%
1.6%9743%
1.2%7551%
1%6233%
0.3%1939%
Famous games in this line17 master games
Akopian, Vladimir (2655) – Short, Nigel D (2690)Grandelius, N. (2645) – Blohberger, Felix (2536)Akopian, Vladimir (2600) – Nogueiras Santiago, Jesus (2580)Akopian, Vladimir (2605) – Ubilava, Elizbar (2560)Akopian, Vladimir (2655) – San Segundo Carrillo, Pablo (2505)Poluljahov, Aleksandr (2526) – Tregubov, Pavel V (2615)Malaniuk, Vladimir P (2570) – Kuzmin, Gennadi P (2465)Suba, Mihai (2545) – Inkiov, Ventzislav (2465)Heroes of this opening Akopian, Vladimir · Blohberger, Felix · Tregubov, Pavel V · Suba, Mihai
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D60
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Qb3
Classical
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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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