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Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Exchange Variation, Costa's Line

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Exchange Variation, Costa's Line belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D07, 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.

Play reaches this position via 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. cxd5 Qxd5 4. e3 e5 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Bd2 Bxc3 7. Bxc3 exd4 8. Ne2, after 15 plies of opening development.

The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Exchange Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
D07
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
15
Parent
Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Exchange Variation

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