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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Swiss, Carlsbad Variation
15/15
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)Polugaevsky, Lev (2625) – Portisch, Lajos (2650)Piket, Jeroen (2605) – Sokolov, Ivan (2650)Gligoric, Svetozar (2595) – Portisch, Lajos (2650)Navara, David (2697) – Apicella, Manuel (2532)Azmaiparashvili, Zurab (2620) – Portisch, Lajos (2595)Gheorghiu, Florin (2605) – Balashov, Yuri S (2600)Piket, Jeroen (2615) – Speelman, Jonathan S (2590)- 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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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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