Tree path 5 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Declined › Tarrasch Defense, Pseudo-Tarrasch › Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense, Stoltz Variation
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined D30
- Tarrasch Defense, Pseudo-Tarrasch D30
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense, Stoltz Variation
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense, Stoltz Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D34, 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. Nf3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Bg5 Be6 10. Rc1 b6, after 20 plies of opening development.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense, Pseudo-Tarrasch, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- D34
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 20
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