Queen's Gambit Declined: Traditional Variation
Overview
Queen's Gambit Declined: Traditional Variation belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO D30, 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 begins with 7 plies and takes 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Bg5 to reach the canonical position.
The line splits into 2 documented sub-systems: Queen's Gambit Declined: Capablanca Variation, Queen's Gambit Declined: Vienna Variation.
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- ECO code
- D30
- Group
- Closed & Semi-Closed Games (D)
- Plies
- 7
- Direct variations
- 2
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Statistics from Lichess
2,045,034 games · White 49.5% / Draw 5.9% / Black 44.6%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Be7 | 1,282,897 | |
| c6 | 149,183 | |
| Nbd7 | 146,366 | |
| Bb4+ | 124,912 | |
| h6 | 117,050 | |
| dxc4 | 89,276 | |
| c5 | 85,781 | |
| Nc6 | 15,712 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:42:40
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