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Tree path 7 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: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Symmetrical Variation › Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Levenfish Variation
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  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: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Symmetrical Variation D40
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D40

Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Levenfish Variation

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Levenfish Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D40, 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 19 plies and takes 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. Qe2 Qe7 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. e4 to reach the canonical position.

The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Symmetrical Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
D40
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
19
Parent
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Symmetrical Variation

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