Chess opening
Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight DefenseD51
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense is a chess opening classified under ECO code D51. It is reached after the moves:
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
Comes from
Main continuations
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Manhattan Variation (D51)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Knight Defense (D51)
Related lines in the Queen's Gambit Declined
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Slav (D02)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Attack, Salvio Countergambit (D06)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense (D06)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Gusev Countergambit (D06)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Haberditz Variation (D06)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense (D06)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Argentinian Gambit (D06)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Chigorin (D06)
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