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Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Be75.Bg5O-O6.e3Nbd7
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense711k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
16%111k51%
9.3%66k50%
5.1%36k57%
2.6%19k51%
1.8%13k51%
0.5%3.5k48%
Famous games in this line3.9k master games
Aronian, Levon (2813) – Carlsen, Magnus (2868)Carlsen, M.. (2847) – Karjakin, Sergey (2757)Ding Liren (2778) – Mamedyarov, S. (2814)Radjabov, T.. (2765) – Karjakin, Sergey (2752)Erigaisi, Arjun (2799) – Maghsoodloo, Parham (2712)Duda, J. (2737) – Karjakin, Sergey (2773)Le Quang Liem (2709) – Aronian, L.. (2781)Wojtaszek, R. (2727) – Mamedyarov, S. (2747)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, M.. · Radjabov, T.. · Aronian, L..
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D60
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7
Classical
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Go deeper — named lines from here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line7.Rc1 · 2 deeper linesQueen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Botvinnik Variation7.Bd3Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Henneberger Variation7.Rc1 a6 · 1 deeper lineQueen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Swiss, Carlsbad Variation7.Rc1 a6 8.cxd5
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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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