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| + | The most popular way to decline the Queen's Gambit is the Ragozin Variation, which is similar to Nimzo-Indian Defense:<ref>https://simplifychess.com/queens-gambit-declined/index.html#what-is-the-queens-gambit-declined</ref> | ||
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| + | 1.d4 d5 | ||
| + | <br>2.c4 e6 | ||
| + | <br>3.Nc3 Nf6 | ||
| + | <br>4. Nf3 Bb4 | ||
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| + | It can continue as the Vienna Variation: | ||
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| + | 5. Bg5 dxc4 | ||
| + | <br>6. e4 .... | ||
== Other Defenses == | == Other Defenses == | ||
Revision as of 02:36, December 25, 2020
Queen's Gambit Declined (or QGD) is a chess opening in which White offers a gambit of a pawn (the Queen's Gambit), but Black then declines to take the offered pawn in order to avoid giving up the center of the board:
1. d4 d5
2. c4 e6
The most popular way to decline the Queen's Gambit is the Ragozin Variation, which is similar to Nimzo-Indian Defense:[1]
1.d4 d5
2.c4 e6
3.Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3 Bb4
It can continue as the Vienna Variation:
5. Bg5 dxc4
6. e4 ....
Other Defenses
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 – Albin Countergambit
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 – Chigorin Defense
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 – Baltic Defense
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 – Marshall Defense
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 – Slav Defense
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 and subsequently ... c6 – Semi-Slav Defense
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5 – Austrian Defense (also known the Symmetrical Defense)