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Tree path 8 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Queen's Gambit › Queen's Gambit Declined › Queen's Knight Variation › Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal Defense › Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation › Queen's Gambit Declined: Been-Koomen Variation › Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation
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  2. Queen's Pawn Game D00
  3. Queen's Gambit D06
  4. Queen's Gambit Declined D30
  5. Queen's Knight Variation D31
  6. Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal Defense D35
  7. Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation D50
  8. Queen's Gambit Declined: Been-Koomen Variation D50
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Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation

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Overview

Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D50, 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 9 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c5 5. cxd5.

The line refines Queen's Gambit Declined: Been-Koomen Variation, which traces back to the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.

It continues primarily into one named line, Canal Variation.

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ECO code
D50
Group
Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
Plies
9
Parent
Queen's Gambit Declined: Been-Koomen Variation
Direct variations
1

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Statistics from Lichess

80,217 games · White 50.3% / Draw 5.2% / Black 44.5%

MovesGamesW / D / B
exd559,954
cxd416,486
Qb61,488
Be7939
h6832
Nxd5133
Qa591
Qxd577

Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:09:20

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Variations (1)

Related variations at the same level

Sister lines that share the same parent Queen's Gambit Declined: Been-Koomen Variation:

https://chesscodex.org/openings/queens-gambit-declined-pseudo-tarrasch-variation