page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 281  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Saint Amant vs Staunton 1-0 35 1843 Paris m ;HCL 15 D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 2. Staunton vs Saint Amant ½-½ 57 1843 Paris m ;HCL 15 D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 3. Harrwitz vs Lowenthal ½-½ 64 1853 London D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 4. D Fiske vs N Marache   1-0 42 1857 New York D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 5. T Lichtenhein vs Morphy ½-½ 31 1857 1st American Chess Congress D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 6. Paulsen / Goring / Metger vs Anderssen / Zukertort / Schmid 0-1 63 1877 Leipzig Consultation D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 7. Steinitz vs J Mortimer   1-0 42 1883 Tnmt, London D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 8. Burn vs A Van Foreest   1-0 47 1889 Amsterdam D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 9. Burn vs Lasker 0-1 20 1895 Hastings D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 10. Fahndrich / Charousek vs Schlechter/Marco   ½-½ 50 1897 Vienna D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 11. Schlechter vs Burn 1-0 61 1898 Vienna (Austria) D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 12. J N Berger vs Burn   0-1 50 1900 Munich (Germany) D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 13. Pillsbury vs Mieses   ½-½ 49 1902 Hanover D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 14. Schlechter vs Pillsbury 0-1 23 1902 Monte Carlo D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 15. J Mason vs Schlechter   0-1 45 1902 Monte Carlo D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 16. D Bleykmans vs Loman   0-1 27 1902 DSB-13.Kongress Hauptturnier A D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 17. A Rabinovich vs M Lowtzky   0-1 38 1903 RUS-ch03 D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 18. Janowski vs J Barry 1-0 44 1904 Cambridge Springs D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 19. R K Kieseritsky vs W Kunze   1-0 25 1905 Barmen Main A, GER D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 20. Moewig vs Rubinstein   0-1 40 1905 Barmen Main A, GER D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 21. Moewig vs Gajdos   ½-½ 40 1905 Barmen Main A, GER D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 22. Janowski vs Marshall   1-0 55 1905 Ostend D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 23. Janowski vs Marshall   0-1 43 1905 Paris D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 24. Marshall vs Tarrasch ½-½ 30 1905 Nurnberg D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 25. Fahrni vs Spielmann   0-1 47 1906 Nuremberg D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch  page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 281    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

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Jul-11-03    Kenkaku: This opening seems to have really declined. Does anyone know the reason for this? Mar-29-04    Kenkaku: I've taken to playing this system recently, and found it to be quite solid. It lacks the isolated pawn weakness of the Tarrasch, and generally gives black a relatively favorable pawn structure (at least in my opinion), as well as often laying the burden of an isolated pawn on white. Nov-09-04    sandyobrien: tal has neither won nor lost a game with this opening, he's drawn 7. Nov-09-04    acirce: <sandyobrien> Tal has both won and lost several times with this line. Lost against Larsen, Petrosian, Polugayevsky, Korchnoi; won against Korchnoi, Romanishin etc.. Nov-09-04    sandyobrien: <acirce>excuse me, i forgot to mention that he was playing as black each time. according to the cg.com database Nov-09-04    acirce: <sandyobrien> This database is very incomplete, although it probably doesn't lack too many of Tal's games. More than that though, it DOES include games like Larsen vs Tal, 1969 which he lost as Black -- I don't know why it doesn't turn up if you click the link under "practitioners", something with move order? May-09-09    nummerzwei: I've recently worked out a little chess quiz question: If White begins the game with 1.d4, how many reasonable (i.e. excluding, for example, those starting with 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nf6) move orders are there to reach the D40 starting position?

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