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Tree path 9 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: Manhattan 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: Manhattan Variation D51 you are here
D51

Queen's Gambit Declined: Manhattan Variation

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Declined: Manhattan Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D51, 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 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 Bb4, after 10 plies of opening development.

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

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ECO code
D51
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
10
Parent
Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense

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