Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Zilbermints Gambit
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1.d4d52.c4b5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Zilbermints Gambit7.2k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
40%2.9k61%
33%2.4k65%
10%72760%
8.6%62055%
3.4%24452%
2%14251%
1.6%11652%
0.3%1864%
0.3%1853%
0.2%1238%
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D06
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 b5
GambitClassical
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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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