Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation (8… h6 9. Bh4)
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Qc2 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3 h6 9. Bh4
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation is a chess opening classified as ECO D36, reached after 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Qc2 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3 h6 9. Bh4. 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 15 times by this move order. White won 40%, 7% were drawn and Black won 53%. The most popular continuation is 9… Re8 (47% of games).
Engine evaluation: +0.19 (Stockfish, depth 42; best line 9… Nh5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. Nge2 Re8 12. h3)
- ECO
- D36
- Moves
- 17 plies
- FEN
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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Qc2 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3 h6 9. Bh4
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Results by rating
| Average rating | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 1500-1999 | 4 | |
| 2000+ | 11 | |
| All | 15 |
Most played moves
| Move | Games | White / draw / Black |
|---|---|---|
| 9… Re8 | 7 (47%) | |
| 9… Be6 | 3 (20%) | |
| 9… Nbd7 | 2 (13%) | |
| 9… Qa5 | 1 (7%) | |
| 9… Ne8 | 1 (7%) | |
| 9… Na6 | 1 (7%) |
Master games
27 over-the-board games are classified under this line (White 41%, draw 29%, Black 30%). The strongest:
- GM Alexander Grischuk (2745) – GM Dmitry Andreikin (2729) 1/2-1/2 · Titled Tue 21st Jun Late · 2022-06-21
- GM Vlastimil Babula (2574) – IM Piotr Piesik (2423) 1/2-1/2 · ECo-C TCh-SVK 2022-23 · 2023-01-21
- GM Vladimir Petkov (2492) – IM Nico Zwirs (2470) 0-1 · 3rd La Palma GM 2022 · 2022-04-12
- GM Alberto David (2534) – FM Dimitrios Katopodis (2281) 1/2-1/2 · 3rd Agios Nikolaos 2019 · 2019-08-30
- Minghui Xu (2408) – Hongchi Peng (2375) 1-0 · TCh-CHN DivA Standard · 2022-09-10
Highest-rated Lichess games
- CM Waseem_akram (2456) – zlatnakisa33 (2423) 1-0 · 2026-09-04 · 180 + 0s
- kemo7spy (2281) – FM JosePadeiro (2323) 0-1 · 2026-09-04 · 180 + 0s
- Dmitrenko_NI (2288) – Modde2025 (2294) 1-0 · 2026-09-01 · 180 + 0s
Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Reshevsky Variation (7… O-O 8. Bd3) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Qc2 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3
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.