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Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Carlsen Variation
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Carlsen Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D35, 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.
The line arises from 14 plies — specifically the moves 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 Bg4.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation.
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- ECO code
- D35
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 14
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