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Tree path 12 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Declined › Queen's Knight Variation › Tarrasch Defense › Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense › Tarrasch Defense: Two Knights Variation › Tarrasch Defense: Rubinstein System › Tarrasch Defense: Prague Variation › Main Line › Tarrasch Defense: Classical Variation › Classical Tarrasch Gambit
  1. Chess Codex
  2. Queen's Pawn Game D00
  3. Queen's Gambit D06
  4. Queen's Gambit Declined D30
  5. Queen's Knight Variation D31
  6. Tarrasch Defense D32
  7. Queen's Gambit Declined: Tarrasch Defense D32
  8. Tarrasch Defense: Two Knights Variation D32
  9. Tarrasch Defense: Rubinstein System D33
  10. Tarrasch Defense: Prague Variation D33
  11. Main Line D34
  12. Tarrasch Defense: Classical Variation D34
  13. Classical Tarrasch Gambit D34 you are here
D34

Tarrasch Defense: Classical Variation, Classical Tarrasch Gambit

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Overview

Tarrasch Defense: Classical Variation, Classical Tarrasch Gambit 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.

It is reached after 18 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. g3 Nf6 7. Bg2 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. dxc5 d4.

The line refines Tarrasch Defense: Classical Variation, 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
18
Parent
Tarrasch Defense: Classical Variation

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