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Queen's Gambit Declined: Traditional Variation
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Bg5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Traditional Variation1.8M games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
64%1.2M47%
7.2%131k49%
7%129k49%
4.4%80k48%
3.8%70k51%
0.8%15k41%
0.6%10k50%
0.4%7.8k46%
Famous games in this line4.3k master games
Mamedyarov, S. (2808) – Caruana, F. (2816)Mamedyarov, S. (2804) – Caruana, F. (2811)Grischuk, A. (2754) – Carlsen, M. (2857)Mamedyarov, S. (2790) – Ding Liren (2812)Mamedyarov, S. (2817) – Giri, A. (2783)Mamedyarov, S. (2817) – Anand, V. (2773)Aronian, L. (2801) – Nakamura, Hi (2786)Carlsen, M. (2842) – Navara, D. (2741)Heroes of this opening Caruana, F. · Mamedyarov, S. · Grischuk, A. · Aronian, L.
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D30
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Bg5
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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