Tree path 4 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense › Tan Gambit
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- Queen's Pawn Game D00
- Queen's Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense D06
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense, Tan Gambit
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense, Tan Gambit 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.
It is reached after 6 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. cxd5 c6.
The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
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- ECO code
- D06
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 6
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Statistics from Lichess
157,865 games · White 51.0% / Draw 5.6% / Black 43.4%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| dxc6 | 113,606 | |
| Nc3 | 32,977 | |
| Nf3 | 5,911 | |
| Bf4 | 1,461 | |
| e4 | 1,182 | |
| d6 | 988 | |
| e3 | 649 | |
| Bg5 | 543 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:29:09
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