Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation (7. Nf3 c6)
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 Be7 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bd3 O-O 7. Nf3 c6
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO D35, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 Be7 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bd3 O-O 7. Nf3 c6. It is a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined. White 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: 0.00 (Stockfish, depth 55; best line 8. O-O Nbd7 9. Qc2 Bd6 10. Re1 Re8)
- ECO
- D35
- Moves
- 14 plies
- FEN
rnbq1rk1/pp2bppp/2p2n2/3p4/3P4/2NBPN2/PP3PPP/R1BQK2R w KQ - 0 8- PGN
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 Be7 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bd3 O-O 7. Nf3 c6
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Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined: Normal Defense 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6
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.