Tree path 3 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D06, Closed & Semi-Closed Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
It begins with 4 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5 to reach the canonical position.
The line refines Queen's Gambit, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 2 documented sub-systems: Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Attack, Salvio Countergambit, Gusev Countergambit.
Together the deeper variations number 3 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- D06
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 4
- Parent
- Queen's Gambit
- Direct variations
- 2
- Total in subtree
- 3
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