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Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Main Line
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3c55.cxd5Nxd56.e3Nc67.Bd3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Main Line11k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
57%6.3k45%
16%1.7k47%
10%1.1k42%
3.7%40645%
2.1%22742%
1.8%20045%
1.6%18038%
1.6%17848%
1.4%14946%
1.1%12444%
Famous games in this line586 master games
Carlsen, M. (2842) – So, W. (2780)Aronian, Levon (2809) – Kramnik, Vladimir (2810)So, W. (2812) – Vachier Lagrave, M. (2796)Carlsen, M. (2870) – Harikrishna, P. (2731)So, W. (2815) – Giri, A. (2785)Giri, A. (2771) – So, W. (2812)Caruana, F. (2799) – Grischuk, A. (2782)Radjabov, T.. (2765) – Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2784)Heroes of this opening Kramnik, Vladimir · Vachier Lagrave, M. · Carlsen, M. · So, W.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D42
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e3 Nc6 7. Bd3
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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