Indian · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Pillsbury Attack
17/17
1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3b64.Nc3d55.cxd5exd56.Bg5Be77.e3O-O8.Bd3Bb79.Ne5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Pillsbury Attack5.1k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
60%3.1k48%
13%64047%
12%62150%
9.3%47844%
2%10447%
0.9%4434%
0.8%4258%
0.8%3932%
0.6%3253%
0.1%540%
Famous games in this line5 master games
Yakubboev, Nodirbek (2556) – Popov, Iv RUS (2592)Danner, Georg (2432) – Hertneck, Gerald (2557)Elorta, David (2409) – Bao, Quang (2332)Karason, Askell Orn (2235) – Taylor, Gordon (2335)Guseynov, A. (2316) – Rahmanov, S. (2194)Heroes of this opening Popov, Iv RUS · Elorta, David · Guseynov, A.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D55
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. Nc3 d5 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bg5 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3 Bb7 9. Ne5
FianchettoAggressiveClassical
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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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