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Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D35, 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 10 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation.
It continues primarily into one named line, Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation.
In total, the branch covers 4 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- D35
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 10
- Direct variations
- 1
- Total in subtree
- 4
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Statistics from Lichess
1,262,637 games · White 50.2% / Draw 6.4% / Black 43.3%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| e3 | 832,719 | |
| Qc2 | 233,178 | |
| Nf3 | 121,989 | |
| e4 | 33,336 | |
| Bxf6 | 15,866 | |
| a3 | 5,607 | |
| g3 | 4,351 | |
| h3 | 4,340 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:21:19
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Variations (1)
Show all 4 sub-variations (full subtree)
- D36 Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation 11-ply
- D36 Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation 15-ply
- D36 Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation 15-ply
- D36 Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation 17-ply