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Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation, Primitive Pillsbury Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5c55.Nf3cxd46.Qxd4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation, Primitive Pillsbury Variation48k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
48%23k49%
45%22k55%
2.1%99849%
2%94638%
1.2%56644%
0.8%38436%
0.2%11632%
0.1%3940%
0.1%2444%
0%2126%
Famous games in this line10 master games
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2722) – Pinter, Jozsef (2532)Mareco, Sandro (2581) – Peralta, Fernando (2593)Barria Zuniga, Daniel (2438) – Naiditsch, Arkadij (2712)Drozdovskij, Yuri (2627) – Mastrovasilis, Athanasios (2519)Stocek, Jiri (2595) – Arnaudov, Petar G (2477)Krysa, L. (2523) – Aghayev, M. (2424)Troff, Kayden W (2522) – Kunal, M. (2302)Livaic, Leon (2554) – Cosma, E. (2232)Heroes of this opening Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar · Peralta, Fernando · Naiditsch, Arkadij · Kunal, M.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D50
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c5 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. Qxd4
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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