Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Argentinian Gambit
1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. cxd5 Bxb1 4. Qa4+ c6 5. dxc6 Nxc6
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Argentinian Gambit is a chess opening classified as ECO D06, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. cxd5 Bxb1 4. Qa4+ c6 5. dxc6 Nxc6. It is a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined. White is to move.
In 12.6 million rated Lichess games (blitz and slower), this position was reached 21 times by this move order. White won 57%, 10% were drawn and Black won 33%. The most popular continuation is 6. Rxb1 (100% of games).
Engine evaluation: +0.49 (Stockfish, depth 38; best line 6. Rxb1 Qxd4 7. Qxd4 Nxd4 8. Nf3 Nc6)
- ECO
- D06
- Moves
- 10 plies
- FEN
r2qkbnr/pp2pppp/2n5/8/Q2P4/8/PP2PPPP/RbB1KBNR w KQkq - 0 6- PGN
1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. cxd5 Bxb1 4. Qa4+ c6 5. dxc6 Nxc6
Analyse with Stockfish · Board image (SVG) · Open on Lichess
Results by rating
| Average rating | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 1500-1999 | 8 | |
| 2000+ | 13 | |
| All | 21 |
Most played moves
| Move | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 6. Rxb1 | 21 (100%) |
Master games
102 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 60%, draw 26%, Black 14%). The strongest:
- GM Matthias Bluebaum (2643) – GM Nihal Sarin (2687) 1/2-1/2 · Titled Tue 11th Feb Early · 2025-02-11
- GM Aleksandar Indjic (2540) – GM Igor Miladinovic (2576) 1/2-1/2 · TCh-Belgrade Premier liga 2013 · 2013-10-20
- GM Andrey Sumets (2595) – GM Alexei Barsov (2459) 1/2-1/2 · 4th President ALG Open · 2016-02-23
- GM Alexander Donchenko (2613) – FM Ivan Vihor Krsnik Cohar (2362) 1-0 · Titled Tue 24th Jun Early · 2025-06-24
- GM Mircea-Emilian Parligras (2579) – IM Vlad Tomescu (2334) 1-0 · Romanian Teams 1st League · 2021-10-03
Highest-rated Lichess games
- BILLYS10 (2754) – FM Koshulyan_Egor (2667) 1-0 · 2026-09-06 · 180 + 0s
- Terribly_Bored (2509) – great_nezhmetdinov2 (2521) 1-0 · 2026-09-05 · 180 + 0s
- BEBOPJAZZMAN (2540) – eddieemc (2357) 1-0 · 2026-09-06 · 300 + 0s
Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5
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, 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
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Zilbermints Gambit D06
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense (2. c4 Nc6) D07
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.