Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense
1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense is a chess opening classified as ECO D06, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5. It is a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined. White is to move. 4 named lines continue from this position.
In 12.6 million rated Lichess games (blitz and slower), this position was reached 17,753 times by this move order. White won 54%, 3% were drawn and Black won 43%. The most popular continuation is 3. Nc3 (59% of games).
Engine evaluation: +0.84 (Stockfish, depth 55; best line 3. cxd5 Nf6 4. Nf3 Nxd5 5. Nbd2 Nb6)
- ECO
- D06
- Moves
- 4 plies
- FEN
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1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5
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Results by rating
| Average rating | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 0-1499 | 5,860 | |
| 1500-1999 | 10,994 | |
| 2000+ | 899 | |
| All | 17,753 |
Most played moves
| Move | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 3. Nc3 | 10,436 (59%) | |
| 3. cxd5 | 2,749 (15%) | |
| 3. Nf3 | 1,865 (11%) | |
| 3. e3 | 1,397 (8%) | |
| 3. Qb3 Baltic Defense, Queen Attack | 435 (2%) | |
| 3. Bf4 | 336 (2%) | |
| 3. c5 | 182 (1%) | |
| 3. g3 | 101 (1%) |
Master games
760 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 52%, draw 17%, Black 31%). The strongest:
- GM Tamir Nabaty (2658) – GM Boris Alterman (2603) 1-0 · TCh-ISR 2018 · 2018-01-19
- GM Nikita Vitiugov (2734) – GM Alexei Bezgodov (2482) 1-0 · FIDE World Rapid 2013 · 2013-06-07
- GM Alexander Riazantsev (2708) – GM Alexei Bezgodov (2482) 1/2-1/2 · FIDE World Rapid 2013 · 2013-06-06
- GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2739) – FM Ivan Vihor Krsnik Cohar (2362) 1-0 · Titled Tue 4th Mar Early · 2025-03-04
- GM Vladimir Fedoseev (2678) – FM Pedro Ramon Martinez Reyes (2422) 1-0 · Titled Tue 11th Aug · 2020-08-11
Search all games of the Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense and its sub-variations
Highest-rated Lichess games
- BILLYS10 (2754) – FM Koshulyan_Egor (2667) 1-0 · 2026-09-06 · 180 + 0s
- FM Alexboy14 (2736) – FM Koshulyan_Egor (2674) 1-0 · 2026-09-04 · 180 + 0s
- omariscof (2545) – FM Koshulyan_Egor (2672) 1/2-1/2 · 2026-09-03 · 180 + 0s
Comes from
Queen's Gambit 1. d4 d5 2. c4
Continuations
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack D06 · 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. Qb3
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Queen Attack Deferred D06 · 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. Nc3 e6 4. Qb3
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Pseudo-Chigorin D06 · 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. Nc3 e6 4. Nf3 Nc6
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense, Argentinian Gambit D06 · 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. cxd5 Bxb1 4. Qa4+ c6 5. dxc6 Nxc6
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: 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
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense (2… Nc6 3. Nc3) D07
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense (3. Nc3 dxc4) D07
- Queen's Gambit Declined: Chigorin Defense, Exchange Variation 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.