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Queen's Gambit Declined: Knight Defense, Alekhine Gambit
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1.d4Nf62.c4e63.Nf3d54.Nc3Nbd75.Bg5h66.Bh4dxc4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Knight Defense, Alekhine Gambit1.4k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
56%77854%
40%56648%
1.5%2138%
0.9%1354%
0.5%757%
0.4%617%
0.3%450%
0.1%2100%
0.1%10%
0.1%1100%
Famous games in this line55 master games
Dreev, Alexey (2677) – Sokolov, Ivan (2647)Illescas Cordoba, Miguel (2640) – Nikolic, Predrag (2670)Vallejo Pons, Francisco (2630) – Sokolov, Ivan (2658)Ruck, Robert (2567) – Sokolov, Ivan (2699)Khalifman, Alexander (2630) – Vaganian, Rafael A (2615)Hertneck, Gerald (2605) – Sokolov, Ivan (2625)Cramling, Pia (2557) – Sokolov, Ivan (2672)Epishin, Vladimir (2570) – Sokolov, Ivan (2635)Heroes of this opening Dreev, Alexey · Khalifman, Alexander · Hertneck, Gerald · Cramling, Pia
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D37
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4
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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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