Queen's Gambit Declined | Modern & Exchange Variation | Plans & Strategies | Chess Openings

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Chessfactor Opening Queen's gambit Declined Modern variation Exchange variation

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The Queen's Gambit is one of the oldest and most popular openings in chess and is played by many of the top chess players in the world. White is fighting in a very ambitious way for central squares, in particular for the e4-square. Therefore, he is trying to get rid of black’s d5-pawn in order to have better control over the e4-square.

In this video of the series, IM Andrey Ostrovskiy is covering the old mainline with 4.Bg5, the Exchange variation and the related Carlsbad Structure in the Queen’s Gambit Declined. Black does not capture on c4 and tends to play a bit more closed position. In the Queen’s Gambit Declined, black’s main idea behind the move 2…e6 is to protect the pawn on d5 and to overprotect this very important central point. The main focus of this video is on the main strategies and plans for both sides in the different variations.

The main variations covered in the video are:

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6

White has two main options here:

00:35 4.cxd5, Exchange Variation
1:04 Black’s move: 4…exd5
After 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 c6, here we reach the Carlsbad Pawn Structure
White has two options here:
7.Qc2 and 7.Bd3. Normally both moves lead to the same position.
After 7.Qc2 Nbd7 8.Bd3, Black has the following options:
4:22 8…Nh5
6:33 8…0-0
White has the following options:
6:45 9.Ne2
7:56 9.Nf3

9:20 4.Bg5, Modern Variation
After 4…Be7 5.Nf3
10:00 Black’s move: 5…0-0
10:57 Black’s move: 5…h6
White has two main options here:
11:04 6.Bxf6
13:17 6.Bh4

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