Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack Deferred
1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. Nc3 e6 4. Qb3
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack Deferred is a chess opening classified as ECO D06, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. Nc3 e6 4. Qb3. It is a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined. Black is to move.
In 12.6 million rated Lichess games (blitz and slower), this position was reached 347 times by this move order. White won 52%, 2% were drawn and Black won 46%. The most popular continuation is 4… b6 (46% of games).
Engine evaluation: +0.21 (Stockfish, depth 36; best line 4… Nc6 5. Bg5 Be7 6. Bxe7 Ngxe7 7. cxd5)
- ECO
- D06
- Moves
- 7 plies
- FEN
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1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. Nc3 e6 4. Qb3
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Results by rating
| Average rating | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 0-1499 | 34 | |
| 1500-1999 | 272 | |
| 2000+ | 41 | |
| All | 347 |
Most played moves
| Move | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 4… b6 | 160 (46%) | |
| 4… Nc6 | 70 (20%) | |
| 4… dxc4 | 42 (12%) | |
| 4… Nf6 | 26 (7%) | |
| 4… Qc8 | 22 (6%) | |
| 4… Nd7 | 12 (3%) | |
| 4… c6 | 9 (3%) | |
| 4… Bd6 | 2 (1%) |
Master games
36 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 47%, draw 9%, Black 44%). The strongest:
- GM Sergey Drygalov (2547) – IM Alexandr Triapishko (2499) 0-1 · TCh-RUS Blitz 2023 · 2023-10-17
- FM Gennady Kozlov (2408) – FM Ivan Vihor Krsnik Cohar (2362) 1/2-1/2 · Titled Tue 15th Apr Early · 2025-04-15
- FM Aljosa Tomazini (2387) – IM Vladimir Kutynec (2293) 0-1 · 28th Czech Rapid G1 2017 · 2017-07-20
- FM Samdan Samdanov (2294) – FM Menua Hakobyan (2361) 0-1 · 1st 3-0 Thu 27th Nov 2025 · 2025-11-27
- IM Anna M. Sargsyan (2378) – FM Marcelo Jorquera (2233) 1-0 · Titled Tue 13th Sep Late · 2022-09-13
Highest-rated Lichess games
- LLLDDDYYY (2541) – great_nezhmetdinov2 (2527) 1/2-1/2 · 2026-09-05 · 180 + 0s
- cad2024 (2462) – Karibas (2296) 0-1 · 2026-09-06 · 180 + 2s
- BSCOD (2348) – kulapnit (2405) 0-1 · 2026-09-06 · 180 + 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, 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: 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.