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Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, San Sebastian Variation
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1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.cxd5Nxd55.e4Nxc36.bxc3c57.Nf3cxd48.cxd4Bb4+9.Bd2Qa5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, San Sebastian Variation40k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
23%9.4k55%
20%8.2k51%
19%7.8k53%
12%4.8k50%
12%4.8k55%
8.3%3.3k68%
2.2%89250%
1.1%43241%
0.5%18939%
0.3%14052%
Famous games in this line43 master games
Cramling, Pia (2545) – Vaisser, Anatoli (2565)Tazbir, M. (2518) – Stupak, K. (2568)Kryakvin, Dmitry (2603) – Bodiroga, Predrag (2406)Cebalo, Miso (2511) – Drazic, Sinisa (2497)Jumabayev, Rinat (2421) – Ovetchkin, Roman (2534)Bernadskiy, V. (2546) – Czerwonski, A. (2382)Stohl, Igor (2465) – Plachetka, Jan (2430)Chernikov, Oleg L (2395) – Kveinys, Aloyzas (2475)Heroes of this opening Cramling, Pia · Tazbir, M. · Kryakvin, Dmitry · Bernadskiy, V.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D41
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 c5 7. Nf3 cxd4 8. cxd4 Bb4+ 9. Bd2 Qa5
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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