Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense, Makogonov Exchange Variation
16/16
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Be74.Nf3Nf65.Bg5h66.Bh4O-O7.e3b68.cxd5Nxd5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense, Makogonov Exchange Variation69k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
72%50k48%
16%11k49%
9.1%6.3k49%
1.6%1.1k19%
0.2%14829%
0.2%13318%
0.2%12717%
0.2%11715%
0.1%5125%
0.1%3619%
Famous games in this line802 master games
Nakamura, Hikaru (2753) – Carlsen, Magnus (2823)Nakamura, Hi (2787) – Harikrishna, P. (2763)Radjabov, T. (2763) – So, W. (2778)Nakamura, Hi (2750) – So, W. (2778)Eljanov, P. (2765) – Topalov, V. (2754)Fischer, Robert James (2785) – Spassky, Boris V (2660)Vitiugov, Nikita (2726) – Tomashevsky, Evgeny (2710)Bok, B. (2640) – Grischuk, A. (2759)Heroes of this opening Radjabov, T. · Nakamura, Hi · Fischer, Robert James · Grischuk, A.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D59
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 b6 8. cxd5 Nxd5
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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