Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Stonewall Variation
12/12
1.d4d52.c4c63.Nf3Nf64.e3e65.Nbd2Ne46.Bd3f5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Stonewall Variation2.3k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
43%97350%
20%44855%
14%30448%
5.5%12449%
4.6%10339%
3.9%8838%
3.4%7658%
1.6%3644%
1.6%3649%
0.6%1429%
Famous games in this line19 master games
Damljanovic, Branko (2560) – Komljenovic, Davorin (2470)Baranowski, Tadeusz (2419) – Nekhaev, Andrey Ivanovich (2517)Banawa, Joel Cholo (2345) – Stopa, Jacek (2462)Galytskyi, Volodymyr (2359) – Konstantinov, Maxim (2435)Kourkounakis, Ilias (2407) – Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios (2384)Voinov, Alexandr (2428) – Tuzhik, Artem (2353)Rubinetti, Jorge Alberto (2380) – Cuasnicu, Oscar (2400)Pingitzer, Harald (2278) – Vavra, Pavel (2393)- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D30
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 Ne4 6. Bd3 f5
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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