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Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D06, Closed & Semi-Closed Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Closed & Semi-Closed Games group covers closed and semi-closed games — 1.d4 systems characterised by long strategic manoeuvring rather than early tactics.
Play reaches this position via 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5, after 4 plies of opening development.
The line refines Queen's Gambit, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 4 documented sub-systems: Argentinian Gambit, Pseudo-Chigorin, Queen Attack, and others.
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- ECO code
- D06
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 4
- Parent
- Queen's Gambit
- Direct variations
- 4
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Statistics from Lichess
4,000,612 games · White 52.7% / Draw 4.4% / Black 42.9%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 2,478,164 | |
| cxd5 | 571,742 | |
| Nf3 | 384,682 | |
| e3 | 294,267 | |
| Qb3 | 116,195 | |
| Bf4 | 69,237 | |
| g3 | 24,803 | |
| c5 | 21,808 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:03:15
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