Exact catalogue record
Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal DefenseD35
Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal Defense is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO D35, in volume D (closed and semi-closed queen-pawn openings).
On this page
- ECO code
- D35
- Opening family
- Queen's Gambit Declined
- Recorded half-moves
- 6
- Last numbered move
- 3
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Material is level
- FEN
- rnbqkb1r/ppp2ppp/4pn2/3p4/2PP4/2N5/PP2PPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 2 4
Scope of this record
This page preserves a source name, one exact legal move sequence and its resulting FEN. It does not claim that the sequence is best, common or strategically self-contained. Opening names can cover several move orders; the links below report only parent, continuation and family relationships present in this catalogue.
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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)
Other records under Queen's Gambit Declined
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- 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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