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Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Janowski Variation
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Janowski Variation is a gambit, classified under ECO code D07 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 begins with 7 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. Nf3 to reach the canonical position.
It is a variation of Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, which itself descends from the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Modern Gambit.
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- ECO code
- D07
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 7
- Direct variations
- 1
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