Chess opening
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical VariationD68
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Classical Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code D68. It is reached after the moves:
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 c6 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 Nd5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. O-O Nxc3 12. Rxc3 e5
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
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Main continuations
Related lines in the Queen's Gambit Declined
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Slav (D02)
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- 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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