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Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (D16)
1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 Nc3 dxc4 5 a4

Number of games in database: 2081
Years covered: 1896 to 2025
Overall record:
   White wins 40.3%
   Black wins 20.7%
   Draws 39.0%

Popularity graph, by decade

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PRACTITIONERS
With the White Pieces With the Black Pieces
Abhijeet Gupta  11 games
Loek van Wely  11 games
Wolfgang Uhlmann  10 games
Sergei Rublevsky  24 games
Helgi Ass Gretarsson  21 games
Jorden van Foreest  19 games
NOTABLE GAMES [what is this?]
White Wins Black Wins
Alekhine vs Bogoljubov, 1929
Boleslavsky vs Smyslov, 1950
Alekhine vs Bogoljubov, 1936
Van Wely vs Morozevich, 2001
Timman vs Petrosian, 1982
Bolbochan vs Smyslov, 1966
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 page 1 of 84; games 1-25 of 2,081  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Showalter vs Winawer 0-1491896NurembergD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
2. L Labatt vs Capablanca 1-0371912Casual gameD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
3. A Pokorny vs V Sifalda  1-0391923PardubiceD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
4. Kashdan vs C E Norwood  1-0851925Albert Hallgarten prelim-AD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
5. I Rabinovich vs Chulkov  1-0291926North West Region Championship sf-BD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
6. W Orbach vs W Von Holzhausen  1-0691928GiessenD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
7. S Factor vs Kupchik  1-03019282nd NCF CongressD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
8. Z von Balla vs Spielmann  1-0571928BudapestD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
9. H Steiner vs L Steiner  0-1411929Bradley BeachD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
10. E Mulder vs S Landau  0-1311929Dutch ChampionshipD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
11. Alekhine vs Bogoljubov 1-0261929Alekhine - Bogoljubov World Championship MatchD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
12. Capablanca vs A Dake 1-0611931New York InternationalD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
13. L Metanomski vs E Glass 1-0921931Trebitsch MemorialD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
14. Flohr vs W Henneberger  1-0371932BernD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
15. O Naegeli vs E Voellmy  1-0721932BernD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
16. Pirc vs L Steiner  ½-½451933Hastings 1932/33D16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
17. Denker vs E Schwartz 1-0361933Young Masters TournamentD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
18. Kashdan vs V Soultanbeieff  ½-½381933Folkestone OlympiadD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
19. J Rejfir vs A Dunkelblum  ½-½381933Folkestone OlympiadD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
20. A Nadjmeljkuti vs M Maksimovic  1-0301934Yugoslav Amateur ChampionshipD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
21. M Defosse vs V Soultanbeieff 0-1201934Belgian ChampionshipD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
22. H Silbermann vs S Erdelyi  1-0301935Romanian ChampionshipD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
23. P Vaitonis vs S Erdelyi  ½-½391935Warsaw OlympiadD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
24. Alekhine vs Euwe 1-0571935Alekhine - Euwe World Championship MatchD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
25. M Feigin vs R Skuja  1-0321935Latvian ChampionshipD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
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Kibitzer's Corner
Nov-14-04  azaris: Holding on to the pawn with 5...Bd7(?) doesn't seem to be all that popular and I might have discovered the reason why.

[White "azaris"]
[Black "teva"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. a4 Bd7 6. e4 b5 7. axb5 cxb5 8. e5 Ng8 9. Ng5 f6 10. Qf3 Nc6 11. e6 Nxd4 12. exd7+ Kxd7 13. Qe4 Nb3 14. Ra6 Qc8 15. Qd5+ Ke8 16. Qxb5+ Qd7 17. Qxd7+ Kxd7 18. Nf7 Nxc1 19. Bxc4 Rc8 20. Rxa7+ Ke8 21. Be6 Rb8

White to play and mate in 4.

Nov-16-05  Dudley: Lets see now, would that be 22.Nd5 Rc8 23.Nc7+ RxN 24.Ra8+ Rc8 25. RxR# ? Good game- I play the QG also and have made a special point out of learning how to punish those feckless materialists who insist on trying to hold the gambit pawn. Well done.

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