Queen's Gambit Declined: Capablanca Variation (5… Nbd7 6. e3)
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 d5 4. Bg5 c6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. e3
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Capablanca Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO D30, reached after 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 d5 4. Bg5 c6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. e3. 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: +0.21 (Stockfish, depth 30; best line 6… Be7 7. Rc1 h6 8. Bf4 O-O 9. Bd3)
- ECO
- D30
- Moves
- 11 plies
- FEN
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1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 d5 4. Bg5 c6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. e3
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Master games
1 over-the-board game is classified under this line (White 0%, draw 100%, Black 0%). The strongest:
- GM Darwin Laylo (2434) – Rogelio Enriquez (2229) 1/2-1/2 · Zonal 3.3 Online 2021 · 2021-05-08
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Comes from
Indian Defense: Knights Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3
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.