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Tree path 10 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Declined › Queen's Knight Variation › Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal Defense › Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation › Knight Defense › Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense › Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense › Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Defense, Capablanca Variation
  1. Chess Codex
  2. Queen's Pawn Game D00
  3. Queen's Gambit D06
  4. Queen's Gambit Declined D30
  5. Queen's Knight Variation D31
  6. Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal Defense D35
  7. Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation D50
  8. Knight Defense D51
  9. Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense D51
  10. Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense D51
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D52

Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Defense, Capablanca Variation

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Defense, Capablanca Variation is a gambit, classified under ECO code D52 within the Closed & Semi-Closed Games family. As with all gambits, one side sacrifices material early — usually a pawn — in exchange for development, open lines, or initiative.

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 is reached after 13 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 c6 6. Nf3 Qa5 7. Bxf6.

It is a variation of Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense, which itself descends from the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
D52
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
13
Parent
Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense

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