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Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense, Alekhine Variation
9/9
1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Bb45.Qa4+
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense, Alekhine Variation173k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
99%170k43%
0.8%1.4k23%
0.5%82020%
0.1%17222%
0.1%11323%
0%8322%
0%1911%
0%1221%
0%10%
Famous games in this line3.5k master games
Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Ding, Liren (2791)Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Ding, Liren (2791)Nakamura, Hi (2787) – Carlsen, M. (2855)Carlsen, M.. (2862) – So, W.. (2770)Karjakin, Sergey (2773) – Carlsen, M. (2855)Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Anand, Viswanathan (2753)Aronian, L.. (2781) – Caruana, F.. (2820)Andreikin, D. (2724) – Carlsen, M. (2872)Heroes of this opening Nakamura, Hi · Carlsen, M.. · Andreikin, D.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D38
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qa4+
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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