Tree path 11 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 › Queen's Gambit Declined › Orthodox Defense, Bd3 Line › Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Capablanca System › Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Bd3 Line › Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined D30
- Queen's Knight Variation D31
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal Defense D35
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation D50
- Queen's Gambit Declined D53
- Orthodox Defense, Bd3 Line D66
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Capablanca System D67
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Bd3 Line D67
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line D67 you are here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Main Line belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D67, 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.
It begins with 21 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 c6 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 Nd5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. O-O to reach the canonical position.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Bd3 Line, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation.
Together the deeper variations number 2 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- D67
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 21
- Direct variations
- 1
- Total in subtree
- 2
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