Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek Variation, Miladinovic Gambit
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. e4 dxe4 5. f3
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek Variation, Miladinovic Gambit is a chess opening classified as ECO D31, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. e4 dxe4 5. f3. 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 2 times by this move order. White won 100%, 0% were drawn and Black won 0%. The most popular continuation is 5… exf3 (100% of games).
Engine evaluation: −0.48 (Stockfish, depth 30; best line 5… Bh4+ 6. g3 Bf6 7. Be3 c5 8. Nxe4)
- ECO
- D31
- Moves
- 9 plies
- FEN
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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. e4 dxe4 5. f3
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Results by rating
| Average rating | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 2000+ | 2 | |
| All | 2 |
Most played moves
| Move | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 5… exf3 | 2 (100%) |
Master games
6 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 0%, draw 50%, Black 50%). The strongest:
- Stoofvlees II d9 (3541) – Reckless 0.10.0-dev-9057bc13 (3749) 1/2-1/2 · TCEC 29 Gambit Bonus 2026 · 2026-05-28
- Reckless 0.10.0-dev-9057bc13 (3749) – Stoofvlees II d9 (3541) 1/2-1/2 · TCEC 29 Gambit Bonus 2026 · 2026-05-28
- FM Tobias Voege (2292) – IM Nikoloz Petriashvili (2475) 0-1 · Titled Tue 7th May Early · 2024-05-07
- Pawel Wnuk-Lipinski (1906) – Marcin Rozowski (1992) 0-1 · 179th YMCA Winter A 2017 · 2017-01-13
- Jan Durzynski (1913) – Wladyslaw Zelak (1862) 1/2-1/2 · Wroclaw Open B 2025 · 2025-08-07
Highest-rated Lichess games
- Royaluba2905 (2158) – BobyFoxy (2118) 1-0 · 2026-09-01 · 180 + 0s
- francastillo (2066) – Harmendous (2076) 1-0 · 2026-09-07 · 180 + 0s
Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek Variation 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7
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.