Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Krause Variation
15/15
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5c55.Nf3cxd46.Nxd4e57.Ndb5a68.Qa4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Krause Variation103 games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
84%8658%
12%1250%
1.9%250%
1.9%20%
1%10%
Famous games in this line4 master games
Reshevsky, Samuel Herman (2460) – Christiansen, Larry Mark (2550)Mikhalchishin, Adrian (2545) – Gorelov, Sergey G (2420)Bennis, Zakaria (2280) – Hmadi, Slaheddine (2330)Taksrud, Vidar (2106) – Johansen, Anders Sten (2366)- 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. Nxd4 e5 7. Ndb5 a6 8. 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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