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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Swiss, Carlsbad Variation

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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Be75.Bg5O-O6.e3Nbd77.Rc1a68.cxd5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Swiss, Carlsbad Variation8.0k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
75%6.0k47%
25%2.0k43%
0.1%50%
0%1100%
0%10%
Famous games in this line312 master games
Timman, Jan H (2650) – Portisch, Lajos (2640)1984½–½Polugaevsky, Lev (2625) – Portisch, Lajos (2650)1973½–½Piket, Jeroen (2605) – Sokolov, Ivan (2650)1994½–½Gligoric, Svetozar (2595) – Portisch, Lajos (2650)1973½–½Navara, David (2697) – Apicella, Manuel (2532)20131–0Azmaiparashvili, Zurab (2620) – Portisch, Lajos (2595)1992½–½Gheorghiu, Florin (2605) – Balashov, Yuri S (2600)1981½–½Piket, Jeroen (2615) – Speelman, Jonathan S (2590)1992½–½
Family
Queen's Gambit
Category
Indian
First move
1.d4
ECO
D63
Line
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 a6 8. cxd5
Classical
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Bd3 LineD66 1…d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 …Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Krause VariationD50 1…d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 …Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Endgame VariationD41 4…c5 5.cxd5 cxd4 6.Qxd4 exd5 7.e4 …
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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