Tree path 7 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Slav Defense › Modern Line › Slav Defense: Quiet Variation › Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation › Queen's Gambit Declined: Stonewall Variation
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Slav Defense D10
- Modern Line D11
- Slav Defense: Quiet Variation D11
- Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation D30
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Stonewall Variation D30 you are here
Queen's Gambit Declined: Stonewall Variation
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Stonewall Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D30, 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 is reached after 12 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 Ne4 6. Bd3 f5.
The line refines Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- D30
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 12
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