Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense (8. Bh4 Ne4)
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Rc1 h6 8. Bh4 Ne4
The Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense is a chess opening classified as ECO D56, reached after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Rc1 h6 8. Bh4 Ne4. 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: +0.35 (Stockfish, depth 34; best line 9. Bxe7 Nxe7 10. Qc2 Nxc3 11. Qxc3 a5)
- ECO
- D56
- Moves
- 16 plies
- FEN
r1bq1rk1/ppp1bpp1/2n1p2p/3p4/2PPn2B/2N1PN2/PP3PPP/2RQKB1R w K - 2 9- PGN
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Rc1 h6 8. Bh4 Ne4
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Master games
1 over-the-board game is classified under this line (White 0%, draw 0%, Black 100%). The strongest:
- IM Alice Lee (2398) – GM Jianchao Zhou (2581) 0-1 · Charlotte Fall GM Open · 2024-11-22
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Comes from
Queen's Gambit Declined (7… h6 8. Bh4) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Rc1 h6 8. Bh4
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.