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Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights, Vienna Variation
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3dxc4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights, Vienna Variation1.3M games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
4%49k55%
3.1%38k59%
2.7%34k55%
1.3%17k56%
1.1%14k54%
0.5%6.7k54%
0.2%2.5k53%
Famous games in this line6.5k master games
Carlsen, M. (2882) – Caruana, F. (2818)Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Caruana, Fabiano (2835)Carlsen, Magnus (2863) – Ding, Liren (2791)Mamedyarov, S. (2817) – Caruana, F. (2832)Carlsen, M. (2875) – Anand, V. (2767)Carlsen, M. (2875) – Anand, V. (2767)Carlsen, M.. (2847) – Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2789)Carlsen, M.. (2847) – Nepomniachtchi, I.. (2789)Heroes of this opening Carlsen, Magnus · Nepomniachtchi, I..
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D37
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 dxc4
Classical
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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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