Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Defense, Bogoljubow Variation
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Qa5 7. Nd2 Bb4 8. Qc2
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Defense, Bogoljubow Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO D52, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Qa5 7. Nd2 Bb4 8. Qc2. 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 14 times by this move order. White won 21%, 8% were drawn and Black won 71%. The most popular continuation is 8… dxc4 (43% of games).
Engine evaluation: +0.20 (Stockfish, depth 36; best line 8… c5 9. Bf4 O-O 10. Be2 cxd4 11. exd4)
- ECO
- D52
- Moves
- 15 plies
- FEN
r1b1k2r/pp1n1ppp/2p1pn2/q2p2B1/1bPP4/2N1P3/PPQN1PPP/R3KB1R b KQkq - 4 8- PGN
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Qa5 7. Nd2 Bb4 8. Qc2
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Results by rating
| Average rating | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 1500-1999 | 2 | |
| 2000+ | 12 | |
| All | 14 |
Most played moves
| Move | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 8… dxc4 | 6 (43%) | |
| 8… O-O | 4 (29%) | |
| 8… Ne4 | 2 (14%) | |
| 8… Bxc3 | 1 (7%) | |
| 8… c5 | 1 (7%) |
Master games
177 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 44%, draw 33%, Black 23%). The strongest:
- GM Levon Aronian (2795) – GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2759) 1/2-1/2 · 6th Final Masters · 2013-10-12
- GM Teimour Radjabov (2731) – GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2759) 1/2-1/2 · Tbilisi FIDE GP 2015 · 2015-02-23
- GM Liren Ding (2742) – GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2743) 1/2-1/2 · TCh-TUR Super League 2014 · 2014-08-21
- GM David Anton Guijarro (2646) – GM Aleksey Dreev (2653) 1/2-1/2 · 53rd Capablanca Mem Elite · 2018-05-19
- GM Mircea-Emilian Parligras (2572) – GM Aleksey Dreev (2679) 0-1 · 15th ch-EUR Indiv 2014 · 2014-03-12
Highest-rated Lichess games
- Vigolenso (2568) – LTL_0880 (2539) 0-1 · 2026-09-02 · 180 + 2s
- playingentle (2493) – Sacrifice_chaser (2520) 1-0 · 2026-09-06 · 180 + 2s
- Sergeineff (2305) – Spapan (2325) 0-1 · 2026-09-04 · 180 + 2s
Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Defense (6. e3 Qa5) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Qa5
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.