Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Variation
13/13
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5Be75.e3O-O6.Nf3Nbd77.Qc2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Variation73k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
21%15k45%
19%14k47%
13%9.7k48%
4.9%3.6k43%
3.8%2.8k46%
0.3%21542%
0.2%16139%
0.1%10539%
Famous games in this line1.2k master games
Carlsen, M.. (2847) – Karjakin, Sergey (2757)Erigaisi, Arjun (2799) – Maghsoodloo, Parham (2712)Wojtaszek, R. (2727) – Mamedyarov, S. (2747)Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2752) – Alekseev, Evgeny (2716)Mamedyarov, S. (2817) – Sarana, A. (2630)Harikrishna, P. (2727) – Eljanov, P. (2719)Carlsen, M. (2840) – Lodici, Lorenzo (2590)Shirov, Alexei (2710) – Piket, Jeroen (2670)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, M..
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D61
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Qc2
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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