Queen's Gambit Declined: Anti-Tartakower Variation, Petrosian Variation
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. e3 O-O 8. Rc1 c6 9. Bd3 Nd7 10. O-O dxc4 11. Bxc4
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Anti-Tartakower Variation, Petrosian Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO D55, reached after 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. e3 O-O 8. Rc1 c6 9. Bd3 Nd7 10. O-O dxc4 11. Bxc4. It is a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined. Black is to move.
This exact move order didn't appear in our sample of 12.6 million Lichess games: it's a rare line.
Engine evaluation: 0.00 (Stockfish, depth 46; best line 11… e5 12. h3 exd4 13. exd4 Nb6 14. Bb3)
- ECO
- D55
- Moves
- 21 plies
- FEN
r1bq1rk1/pp1n1pp1/2p1pb1p/8/2BP4/2N1PN2/PP3PPP/2RQ1RK1 b - - 0 11- PGN
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. e3 O-O 8. Rc1 c6 9. Bd3 Nd7 10. O-O dxc4 11. Bxc4
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Master games
30 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 17%, draw 76%, Black 7%). The strongest:
- GM Teimour Radjabov (2765) – GM So, W. (2770) 1/2-1/2 · Opera Euro Rapid KO 2021 · 2021-02-12
- GM Teimour Radjabov (2765) – GM So, W. (2770) 1-0 · Opera Euro Rapid KO 2021 · 2021-02-11
- GM Xiangzhi Bu (2729) – GM Hao Wang (2737) 1/2-1/2 · CHN League Men 2019 · 2019-06-19
- GM Teimour Radjabov (2751) – GM Gabriel Sargissian (2691) 1-0 · 43rd Olympiad 2018 · 2018-09-28
- GM Maxim Matlakov (2699) – GM Hikaru Nakamura (2736) 0-1 · World Blitz 2019 · 2019-12-30
Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation (3… d5 4. Nc3) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3
More Queen's Gambit Declined lines (all)
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Slav D02
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Attack, Salvio Countergambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Gusev Countergambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Haberditz Variation D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Argentinian Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Chigorin D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack Deferred D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense, Tan Gambit D06
Opening names and moves from the Lichess openings dataset; statistics from the Lichess open database, 2026-09 (CC0), sample of 12.6 million games, bots excluded; evaluations from Lichess cloud analysis (all CC0). Master games from The Week in Chess #920–#1664 by Mark Crowther, used with permission.