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Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Tartakower Gambit

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Tartakower Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D07, 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.

It is reached after 6 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 e5.

The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.

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ECO code
D07
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
6
Parent
Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense

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Statistics from Lichess

110,369 games · White 50.1% / Draw 4.8% / Black 45.1%

MovesGamesW / D / B
cxd552,590
dxe527,181
e317,406
Nf37,654
Nxd54,179
e4518
c5199
Bf4154

Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:29:25

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