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Tree path 6 levels Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation › Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Normal Line › Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense › Main Line › Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line › Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation
  1. Chess Codex
  2. Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation D37
  3. Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Normal Line D55
  4. Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense D60
  5. Main Line D63
  6. Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line D63
  7. Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation D68 you are here
D68

Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D68, 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. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 c6 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 Nd5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. O-O Nxc3 12. Rxc3 e5 13. Qc2, after 25 plies of opening development.

The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation.

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ECO code
D68
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
25
Parent
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line

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