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D36

Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D36, 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 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Qc2 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3, after 15 plies of opening development.

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

It continues primarily into one named line, Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation.

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ECO code
D36
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
15
Parent
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation
Direct variations
1

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Variations (1)

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Sister lines that share the same parent Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation:

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