Chess opening
Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal DefenseD35
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal Defense is a chess opening classified under ECO code D35. It is reached after the moves:
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
Comes from
Main continuations
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Harrwitz Attack (D35)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation (D50)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Pillsbury Variation (D40)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Harrwitz Attack, Orthodox Defense (D37)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Symmetrical Variation (D40)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, San Sebastian Variation (D41)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Kmoch Variation (D41)
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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