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Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Main Line
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, Main Line belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D57, 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 19 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. cxd5 Nxc3 10. bxc3.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- D57
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 19
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Statistics from Lichess
29,750 games · White 49.1% / Draw 9.1% / Black 41.8%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| exd5 | 29,679 | |
| Qa3 | 33 | |
| e5 | 13 | |
| c5 | 6 | |
| Nd7 | 5 | |
| a6 | 3 | |
| c6 | 3 | |
| Rd8 | 3 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 03:24:27
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